Home Office'tried to axe' BBC police race exposé
In today's Observer newspaper my suspicions of a few days ago, about whether the government would have attempted to have prevented or delayed transmission of the BBC programme revealing 'institutional racism' in several police forces, seem to have at the very least some substance.
The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, in his usual faux-savant style, tried to denounce the programme as a 'stunt' prior to its transmission, but since the broadcast he has been back-pedalling furiously in the light of the fiasco that his earlier comments, and the Home Office letter the Observer reveals, both represent.
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