Doreen Lawrence pledges to condemn 'racial profiling' spot checks in the House of Lords

The new Labour peer Doreen Lawrence today pledged to speak out in the House of Lords over potentially racist stop-and-check operations being carried out by the Home Office.

The Independent revealed today that officials had conducted a series of "racist and intimidatory" spot checks to search for illegal immigrants in the wake of the Government's "go home or face arrest" campaign. Officers wearing stab vests conducted random stop-and-check operations near stations in the London suburbs of Walthamstow, Kensal Green, Stratford and Cricklewood over the past three days. Nationwide, more than 130 alleged "immigration offenders" have been arrested including in Durham, Manchester and Somerset.