It’s hardly been a week since Lee Anderson defected to the flanks of Reform UK and already the red wall rottweiler is making headlines again. Anderson put Rebecca Knox, chair of Dorset’s fire and rescue authority, on the spot at a Home Affairs Committee meeting today, after she described her own force as ‘institutionally racist’. When Anderson probed what that actually meant, Knox was a little lost for words:
LA: So could you please tell me, councillor, what unfair advantages white people have in your force?
RK: I would hope none… not advantages. Did I hear you…?
LA: Yeah, do they have any advantages?
RK: No.
LA: So then how can you be institutionally racist?
RK: Um… I, uh, sorry, I might have to get back to you.
Oo er. Not a response that instils much confidence. Mr S can imagine her firemen and women aren’t much thrilled.
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