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An investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found that the company had kept a list of mainly Irish surnames, which it would use to refuse bookings by Gypsies and Travellers to its holiday parks.

“The fact that I, through luck and the support of others, ‘made it’ in spite of social-economic barriers shouldn’t justify our system and society."

It comes after allegations last year some factories in the UK working for Boohoo were paying staff as little as £3.50 an hour and had working conditions which did not meet lockdown restrictions.

“There is no doubt the virus is in the air, there is no doubt that you can catch it if you inhale, and that someone else has exhaled."

"Suppressed" areas include parts of London such as Notting Hill West, Pimlico, Camden and Balham.

"I worry for people like my hijab-wearing mum who (pre-lockdown) deals with abuse at work from racist customers almost every single day but refuses to stop working. Hate crime is very very real."

"No man has damaged our country as much as David Cameron. No contrition, no shame, no apology, still the same arrogant sense of entitlement, still rich, cosseted, oblivious to the misery he has visited upon others."

"Yet another contract, backdated, and given without tender to a firm with close links to the Conservative Party."

"This isn't a 'feel bad for me post', it's for the kids who don't take their shirt off at the pool. Have fun. You're wonderful and awesome and perfect."