Last week an activist in the US was shot dead while closer to home an MPs office was set ablaze.

Over 100,000 people marched across the capital in a country under the banner “unite the kingdom”.

Many of you in this room reported on the shocking attacks on police and racist conspiracy theories that were on open display.

But many of you also showed the ordinary people, who reject violence and racism, who are increasingly drawn to these movements and these moments.

We should not be surprised. For too long, too many people have not been seen, their contribution not valued.

The systems that are meant to pull in behind them too often work against them when they try to make change.

That invisible chain that George Orwell described, that binds our nation together, needs to be nurtured. Becau

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