Lord Ouseley obituary

Lord Ouseley obituary

Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality who created Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football, later known as Kick It Out

Herman Ouseley, who has died aged 79, was a public servant and campaigner who worked at three levels of government to bring an understanding of the challenges faced by the UK’s black population into the heart of the political establishment.

He did so by creating a link between the neighbourhood-level impacts of racism and the possibility of using the institutions of government to deliver change, during a period when Britain was moving on painfully from the early post-Windrush decades to the multiracial society it is today.

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