https://proudstars.blogspot.com/2015/12/top-tory-in-racism-storm-pms-policy.html
Top Tory in racism storm: PM's policy chief Oliver Letwin blamed black communities' 'bad moral attitudes' for 1980s riots as 'white people lived in slums for years' without causing trouble
Oliver Letwin (top right with David Cameron), then a member of Margaret Thatcher's policy unit, said social unrest could not be caused by deprivation because poor white people had lived in slums for years without rioting. He also criticised plans to inspire the community by creating black entrepreneurs, saying they would just 'set up in the disco and drug trade'. His comments were discovered in files released yesterday under the former 30-year rule by the National Archives at Kew, west London. Last night, campaigners and MPs branded them racist and out of touch, and demanded an apology. They were made in a briefing note prepared for Mrs Thatcher ahead of a meeting on inner-city youth in the wake of the Broadwater Farm riot (main) in Tottenham, north London, in 1985.
