I certainly knew the hard side of urban life, stop-and-search.

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• David Lammy:

  I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

• David Lammy:

  Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a crimin

• David Lammy:

  The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion th

• David Lammy:

  We cannot have different policing for different communities. It is inherently unfair.

• David Lammy:

  Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system.

• David Lammy:

  I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

• David Lammy:

  I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalis

• David Lammy:

  I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the

• David Lammy:

  We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without faul

• David Lammy:

  I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of