I can assure you this matter is being addressed in the most robust terms.
At this difficult time for many of our inner city BME citizens, I think of those values that we share – values that I learned in my own childhood, growing up in a vicarage.
Values of compassion, community, citizenship.
The sense of obligation we have to one another.
These are values we all hold in common, and values that are visibly lived out everyday by Christians, as well as by people of other faiths or none.
This year, after a period of intense debate over the right future for our country, there is a sense that people are coming together and uniting behind the opportunities that lie ahead.
For at heart, this country is one great union of people and nations with a proud history and a bright future.