My name is Lee Jasper I am a passionate advocate for racial and social justice an radical constitutional reform. I have a long history of working on these issues and I have been passionate about inclusive democracy and democratic reform since the early 1990s. Chair of Mangrove Community Association, co-founder of the now extinct 1990 Trust, and Senior Political Adviser to former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone for 8 years (2000 -2008) co founder of Blaksox and an strategic adviser to Black Men 4 Change network and currently chair of the Alliance for Police Accountability (APA) and a strategic adviser to Operation Black Vote (OBV) and Black Equity Organisation (BEO).

As a co-founder of Operation Black Vote founded in 1996 in partnership with Andrew Puddephatt the then CEO of Charter 88 and serving as its chair from its inception to 2008 I have been discussing the issues of what Britain as a multicultural, inclusive democracy should look like for some time.

Fundamental to any new constitutional dispensation I believe that the issues of race discrimination and prejudice needs to be more fundamentally addressed within the context of a new British constitution that enshrines citizenship rights and access to law. Britain needs to emerge as a new 21st century democracy with a parliamentary system of representative democracy that can meet the profound an existential challenge facing not only the United Kingdom but indeed the entire world.

The question of what a British 21st century multicultural democracy looks like is fundamental to the future of the country and an issue that must be fundamentally addressed and resolved. Britain outside of the European Union is in danger of becoming a vassal state The United States of America. In the context of the continuing fundamental threat to international and domestic civil and political human rights ensuring that Britain standards are beacon of a modern inclusive democracy stands within our reach.

The future of our country is one that is inextricably linked to increasing levels of racial ethnic and religious diversity and this provides us with a unique opportunity to develop a think about the need for radical democratic reform alongside the development of a new constitutional framework.

My challenge to those who campaign for democratic reform are these organisations and movements are fully representative and reflect the increasing diversity of the country at `§large? The answer to that is no. It is therefore vital that such organisations understand the issues, lived experience and realities of systemic racism and the need for strengthened anti discriminatory and constitutional rights protections for all British citizens regardless over race, religion or ethnicity.