"In a post in February, referring to a news story about the UK government supposedly considering talks about reparations for slavery which ministers have in fact rejected Parry is said to have written: Lammy must go home to the Caribbean where his loyalty lies. Lammy, who was the foreign secretary when Parry made his remarks, was born in north London to parents from Guyana."
"I'm not familiar with what was said, Tice said. At the end of the day, David Lammy is a cabinet minister. Whether we think he's doing a good or bad job is just part of politics. That's day to day life. He will, I'm sure, continue to claim he's doing a great job. We challenge him. A subsequent questioner read out Parry's post to Tice, asking if he believed it was acceptable to tell a Black Briton to go home to the Caribbean."
Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice declined to condemn comments by mayoral candidate Chris Parry telling David Lammy to "go home to the Caribbean." Parry, a retired naval rear admiral chosen to contest the now-postponed Hampshire and the Solent mayoral election, posted the remark in February amid a false premise about government talks on reparations. Tice said he had not seen the post, framed criticism of Lammy as routine political challenge, and deflected questions to the special educational needs brief. Reform repeatedly declined to condemn Parry's post, and Tice referred to accusations about the party leader as "old news."
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]