Robert Jenrick has had a furious row with Sky News this morning after he was accused of enabling the ‘far-right’ by raising his concerns over integration in communities like Birmingham. Concerns attacked by the Guardian last night…
Presenter Kamali Melbourne accused Jenrick of singling people out for the colour of their skin to which he snapped back, insisting “we want people to be living in mixed communtities, don’t we.” Melbourne eventually went further:
“That kind of language does give support for people on the far-right who don’t want to see brown and black people.”
Jenrick hit back and insisted that journalists were responsible for attacking “fair and reasonable comments to try and shut down a debate that this country needs to have… every time people try and raise their fair and reasonable concerns journalists like you pop up and try to knock those people down.” Punchy…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.