Boris Johnson's top equality tsar has been forced to apologise over homophobic comments made about the late footballer Justin Fashanu.
Tony Sewell was confirmed by the Government as chairman of the new Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, founded in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, on Thursday.
But it has since emerged he made "wrong and offensive" about Mr Fashanu after it was revealed he was gay in 1990. Mr Fashanu took his own life himself in 1998, aged 37, eight years after coming out as Britain's first gay player In a column he wrote for the Voice newspaper,Mr Sewell wrote: "We heteros are sick and tired of tortured queens playing hide and seek around their closets. "Homosexuals are the greatest queer-bashers around.