Watch: Lee Anderson’s ‘institutional racism’ takedown
It’s hardly been a week since Lee Anderson defected [from the Conservative Party] 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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