Sanctioning the Demonisation of Black and Asian Youth?

This is the reality of Britain today... Political correctness and paperwork are undermining our police... The Macpherson report recommended that the police keep a record of every stop they make - and that anyone stopped by the police should be able to see a record of that paperwork... Conservatives would not implement this recommendation... Increased stop and search is part of the solution to rising crime.

Home Office plans to give all people stopped by police a receipt - detailing their race and why they were stopped - would be scrapped in the event of a Tory victory, Mr Howard announced. The receipt scheme was recommended by the Macpherson inquiry into the racist killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, as a way of discouraging police from using "stop powers" disproportionately against black and Asian people.

It comes just a month after figures showed the number of Asians targeted by stop and search powers had risen 302%. Black people have also been targetted, being 6 times more likely to be stopped by police than a white person.

So this is Mr Howard's vision of reality in Britain; nobody to police the police, and the government sanctioning the demonisation of black and Asian youth.