Bitter row over Covid funding for local authorities as Labour councillors claim austerity is responsible for 'killing' BAME populations
hereA second part of the motion, calling for a public inquiry into the UK's response to the pandemic, was somewhat overtaken by events, with the Prime Minister announcing one would be held ‘in future’ shortly before the meeting.However, its assertion that any official probe must focus on ‘the disproportionate impact the virus has had on the BAME population’, was at the heart of much of the ensuing controversy.Public Health England has found that people of Bangladeshi ethnicity were twice as likely to die of the virus than white British ,while other BAME groups were at up to 50pc higher risk of death.And deputy leader Coun Sarah Rowbotham accused the Conservatives of sowing the seeds of the devastation via the austerity policies the party