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Black people are six times as likely as white people to be stopped and searched by the police. Those of Asian origin are twice as likely. Last year, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary claimed that more than a quarter of stops may have been illegal.

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission revealed that the proportion of people of African-Caribbean and African descent jailed here is almost seven times disproportionate to their share of the population. Some of Britain’s most disadvantaged minority ethnic groups are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as their white counterparts. And the proportion of Britons who admit to being racially prejudiced has risen since the start of the millennium.