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2017-19
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Learie Constantine
John Cryer
2018-06-28
That this House notes with deep respect, gratitude and sadness the anniversary on 1 July of the death of Learie, Baron Constantine, barrister, politician, broadcaster, campaigner against racial discrimination and cricketing legend; further notes that Baron Constantine served both on the Race Relations Board and, through his pioneering legal case against Imperial London Hotels on the grounds of discrimination, paved the way for the Race Relations Act of 1965; notes that he led the way for black sportsmen and women in Britain during the 1920s and that he was a consistent and indefatigable campaigner against racial discrimination for many decades; notes that Baron Constantine was the first black person to sit in the House of Lords and the first West Indian cricketer to take a wicket in a Test match; and records with regret that Baron Constantine would have been deeply shocked at the treatment by the Home Office of many men and women of the West Indies who came to Britain to work hard and rebuild the country after the travails of the Second World War and yet whose contribution has often been dismissed and discarded.
Death
Racial discrimination
Sports
Members of the Lords
John Cryer
2018-06-28
Proposed
Leyton and Wanstead
Labour
David Lammy
2018-06-28
Seconded
Tottenham
Labour
Ellie Reeves
2018-06-28
Seconded
Lewisham West and Penge
Labour
Hugh Gaffney
2018-07-02
Seconded
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Labour
Peter Bottomley
2018-07-02
Seconded
Worthing West
Conservative
Chris Stephens
2018-07-02
Seconded
Glasgow South West
Scottish National Party
Jim Shannon
2018-07-03
Signed
Strangford
DUP
Kelvin Hopkins
2018-07-04
Signed
Luton North
Labour
Dennis Skinner
2018-07-04
Signed
Bolsover
Labour
Bob Blackman
2018-07-04
Signed
Harrow East
Conservative
Jim Cunningham
2018-07-04
Signed
Coventry South
Labour
Helen Hayes
2018-07-09
Signed
Dulwich and West Norwood
Labour
Ruth George
2018-07-12
Signed
High Peak
Labour
Alison Thewliss
2018-07-12
Signed
Glasgow Central
Scottish National Party
Alan Brown
2018-07-16
Signed
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Scottish National Party
Drew Hendry
2018-07-16
Signed
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Scottish National Party