Lee Jasper was born on 4 November 1958 and is a British politician and activist.
34 Facts About Lee Jasper
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Lee Jasper served as Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone until he resigned on 4 March 2008.
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Lee Jasper described his surroundings as a child as dominated by "crude racism".
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Lee Jasper started out running a market stall, selling second-hand clothes.
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Lee Jasper returned to education as a mature student and gained a degree in social sciences from Manchester Polytechnic.
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Lee Jasper moved to London in 1985, where he became closely involved in the Notting Hill Carnival, becoming chair of the Mangrove Community Association.
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Lee Jasper was elected Secretary of the Notting Hill Carnival in 1987.
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Lee Jasper ran to be director of the carnival in 1989, but did not get elected.
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Lee Jasper was founder of Operation Trident and the Royal Commonwealth Society.
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Lee Jasper was a witness at the Stephen Lawrence inquiry as a representative of the 1990 Trust.
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Lee Jasper was a group member of the Lawrence campaign.
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Lee Jasper was one of the main officers of the National Assembly Against Racism and has since been praised for developing the "cautious rapprochement" between communities and the police in London.
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Lee Jasper was criticised by Conservative politician Shaun Bailey as "representing the old school of black politics", and was accused of playing the "race card" too often.
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Lee Jasper was the Chief Political Commentator for The Voice newspaper during the 2010 election.
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Lee Jasper was selected as Respect's candidate for the Croydon North by-election on 29 November 2012.
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Lee Jasper had at the time been a registered member of the Labour Party and was removed upon running as a Respect candidate.
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Lee Jasper later admitted using Twitter bots during his campaign to try and sway the vote.
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In November 2016, it emerged that Lee Jasper had rejoined the Labour Party to support the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
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Lee Jasper was again suspended from the party in 2018 over allegedly homophobic tweets.
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Lee Jasper became a member of the Coalition of Resistance anti-cuts campaign.
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Lee Jasper was a political adviser to the 1990 Trust and a board member of Lambeth Police Consultative Group, but resigned as Chair of Brixton Splash though remained a member of its board.
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Lee Jasper has been a high-profile campaigner about deaths in police custody, raising the cases of Sarah Reed and Mohamud Hassan, with his activism having been covered by the Financial Times.
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Lee Jasper is today Vice Chair of BAME Lawyers 4 Justice campaigned to end the deportation of ex-offenders and UK residents deemed to Jamaican nationals.
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Lee Jasper is a Strategic Adviser to the national black men's African and Caribbean network Black Men 4 Change.
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Lee Jasper was responsible for the development, enactment and promotion of equalities policies for the Greater London Authority and had corporate responsibility for the development and delivery of anti discriminatory policies aimed at ensuring equality in employment practices and service delivery.
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One journalist described how Lee Jasper was "intensely disliked" by a more senior political advisor in City Hall.
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Lee Jasper played a leading role in regard to these, and no evidence has been presented for the criminal allegations presented by the Evening Standard.
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That committee reported in July 2008 that Lee Jasper had acted at all times within his remit as a Mayoral adviser, although the panel did express concern about two members of his staff responsible for the Carnival Showcase.
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The report published in June 2009 concluded that Lee Jasper had not influenced the funding decisions of the LDA and that there was no evidence of fraud or corruption.
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Lee Jasper's report found that Jasper failed to record declared interests to the "standards expected".
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Lee Jasper found that Jasper's role in approving funding was "inappropriate given his interests" in a number of cases.
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Lee Jasper tweeted in April 2012 that "the white man is the most violent ethnicity in world history, taking death to an industrial scale".
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Lee Jasper has written about how his youngest son was stabbed in 2010 while trying to break up a fight.
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In 2003, Lee Jasper was named in the top ten by 100 Black Britons.