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No matter how many black votes Keir Starmer manages to salvage in this summer’s general election, they won’t be an endorsement of his candidacy but a rejection of the Tory government and the crisis in its wake. Many disillusioned black voters, however, will likely sit this one out. Starmer’s Labour has seriously eroded trust among black and minority communities in the UK, and the damage may be beyond repair. Earlier this year I wrote in The Voice — the UK’s only black national newspaper, that “Keir Starmer doesn’t care about black people”. Sadly, Labour’s actions this week have only confirmed …

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