Catherine West MP MP for Hornsey & Wood Green and Labour Candidate for Hornsey & Friern Barnet
The shameful online racism displayed to England heroes Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka after the Euro 2020 final was followed by disgusting racist abuse targeted at Sir Lewis Hamilton after his Grand Prix victory.
I wrote to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to urge the Government to acknowledge that racism is a problem that goes beyond football and to work with all sporting Governing bodies to tackle this and ensure that anyone found responsible is prevented from attending future sporting events.
Read my letter and the response I received here:
Here is a copy of the response I received: