208: America’s Racial Injustice Highlights Britain’s Own, with Bim Afolami

Coronavirus news took a backseat as the protests against racial injustice fanned across the world following George Floyd’s death in custody of Minneapolis police. Britain too had tough questions to answer as a report detailing the disproportionate effects of coronavirus on Black and minority ethnic (BAME) people was published.Conservative MP Bim Afolami joins Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth as they discuss the BAME report, whether Boris Johnson has been strong enough in his response to Donald Trump’s actions and whether the government is still following the science on Covid-19. Make sense of politics. Sign up to the Waugh Zone and get the political day in a nutshell every weekday evening.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.