Ross Clark Ross Clark

The shameful targeting of black and Asian Tories

Just what would be it take for the Guardian to stop suggesting Conservatives are racists? We now have the four great offices of state held by: a man baptised Catholic but now a functioning atheist, a man with a Jewish father but who was brought up in the Church of England, a son of Pakistani immigrants and of woman of Indian origin. But has it led to the Left championing what might – were the Cabinet a BBC programme – be celebrated as an explosion of diversity? You’ve guessed it. According to the Left, Boris’s Cabinet is not an example of ‘vibrant’ modern Britain in action, it is instead a case of the new PM ‘parading a set of token figures to legitimise his agenda’.

Those are the words of Kehinde Andrews, a Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, in an extraordinarily miserable piece in the Guardian.

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