David Lammy: “I reminded him that the family have called for calm, they don’t want division ... I reminded him also of the online…”

Of course, I’m angry, upset, deeply troubled that this young man has lost his life as a human being. That’s got nothing to look at the colour of his skin.

When we look carefully at arrest data, prosecution data, conviction data we do see examples of disproportionality, not just in relation to black communities, Muslim communities, Gypsy Roma, Traveller communities.

I told him he was wrong.

I think that what the public want to see, understandably, if you've committed a crime, is punishment, but they also want to see rehabilitation, and so I tend to talk about punishment that works, and the emphasis on works is important.