Labour hopes to ensure black-led firms access lucrative government contracts Guardian cover our story
Black-led businesses could be given more support to procure lucrative government contracts by a futuregovernment as the party refines its offer to ethnic minority voters ahead of the next election.
Task force member and human rights lawyer Jacqueline Mckenzie told the newspaper: “There are no black firms that currently benefit at all [from government contracts], African heritage firms.” Dodds said: “Labour will make tackling structural racial inequality a key mission in government by introducing a“As the next general election draws closer and Labour prepares for government, the Act is being developed by the Labour front bench, working with Baroness Lawrence, policy and legal experts and community groups and this work is ongoing.”
Labour’s offer to black communities follows analysis by The Voice which shows one in every four black voters living in the top 100 constituencies with the highest black populations has a Tory MP who will be defending a small majority at the next election.
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