Today I joined Liberal Democrat councillors from across Cambridgeshire in a virtual demonstration of support for Black Lives Matter.

The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of the police has caused many of us to ‘check our privilege’ and to stand up with people of colour around the world against racism, prejudice, and discrimination.

It was particularly shocking therefore to see on this very day footage emerge from not seven miles away, of a law-abiding black man being stopped by police in King’s Avenue Ely five years ago and asked to provide identification, on the grounds that ‘young black men were coming up from London’ to deal drugs.

My colleague Cllr Matt Downey in Ely has taken up the issue, and I wrote to the Chief Constable, who replied to say that he and his team will be reviewing the circumstances. I await the outcome of that review with interest.