There is a row this morning over comments the Chancellor supplied to the Guardian overnight, crystallised in their write-up:
“Rachel Reeves has said she was angered by Nigel Farage’s suggestion that only British-born families should have the two-child benefit cap lifted, saying the Reform UK leader would keep children in poverty based on their skin colour… ‘I don’t really care what colour a kid’s skin is – some deserve to be in poverty and some don’t? That makes me pretty angry,’ she said.”
The clumsy language there obviously implies that British-born people are exclusively white and immigrants are not. The one time Reeves doesn’t get her words signed off by civil servants…
Zia Yusuf has taken this up this morning:
“Rachel Reeves comes out as an ethno nationalist. She believes only white people can be British.“
He went on to call for her to be sacked for her “beyond the pale and overtly racist” comments. Who said the first week back would be slow?
