LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer called on Boris Johnson today to “turbocharge” his response to racial inequality in Britain after waves of Black Lives Matter protests took place around the world.

During Prime Minister’s questions, he said that there had been at least seven reports on racial inequality in the last three years, all ignored by successive Tory governments.

Mr Starmer added that most of the 35 recommendations in the Lammy review had not yet been implemented, three years after its final report was published.

The review, led by Tottenham Labour MP and shadow justice secretary David Lammy, looked into the treatment of black and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the criminal-justice system.

Mr Starmer asked the Prime Minister whether he would speed up the government’s responses to the Lammy report and recommendations made after the Windrush scandal.

Mr Johnson replied that the government was “getting on” with implementing both sets of recommendations.

The Windrush scandal erupted after many Commonwealth-born British people and their descendents were denied benefits, work and housing and even deported as part of the hostile environment for migrants created by Mr Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, when she was Home Secretary.

Mr Starmer also raised the latest Public Health England report, which concludes that black and Asian people are dying in disproportionate numbers from Covid-19.

He criticised the government for failing to “mitigate the risk” for BAME workers.

Mr Johnson said the government was “already acting” to mitigate risks, citing the “expanded and targeted” testing among people in “high-contact professions” such as in the NHS and transport.

The Labour leader also drew attention to Britain’s overall death toll from coronavirus, underlining that “there’s no pride” in death toll that is among the world’s highest.

Mr Johnson had previously boasted of being “proud” of his government’s record.

The government’s figure for coronavirus deaths has now passed 40,000.

The Office for National Statistics total, which includes all cases where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate, stands at more than 50,000 and the number of excess deaths stands at more than 63,000.

Replying to Mr Starmer, the PM claimed that “the best scientific advice” states that valid international comparisons can only be made when the pandemic has “been through its whole cycle.”