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Race audit can give 'overly-negative picture'

Standing in Downing Street when becoming prime minister last year, Theresa May pledged to tackle the "burning injustices" arising from people's race and background, and the Race Disparity Audit will be published next week.

But Munira Mirza, a former education and culture advisor to Boris Johnson when he was London Mayor, told Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn: "Reports like this tend to give an overly-negative picture of how ethnic groups are doing in Britain today."

Justice Secretary David Lidington said: "I can't be happy with a situation where you have a very large number of young British black and British Asian people saying they can't have confidence in the criminal justice system."

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