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Brexit campaigners used racism to divide our country says Clive Lewis

The shadow treasury minister and Labour leadership candidate Clive Lewis says the campaign to leave the EU was used as a mechanism to divide communities, though he added that doesn’t mean people who voted Brexit are racist.

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2020-01-12 18:38
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Labour leadership outsider Clive Lewis has said that elements of the campaign to take Britain out of the EU had “racism at its heart”.

The shadow treasury minister, who is struggling to secure the support of MPs needed to make it onto the ballot paper, said politicians like Nigel Farage had used Brexit to “divide our communities”.

“I think part of the Brexit campaign and part of the undertone of Brexit from some politicians – Nigel Farage and others – had racism at its core, at its heart. They used it as a mechanism to divide our communities, to divide our country,” the MP for Norwich South told Sophie Ridge on Sky News.

“How many people of colour, how many black people woke up on the day after the referendum with a sense of dread because of what had happened?

“Ultimately our country had chosen too listen to Boris Johnson – someone who had a track record of racist commentary, of giving credence to racism, to Nigel Farage who stood in front of a poster which was overtly racist. This was the government which had the Windrush scandal, which has Go Home Vans,” the Labour MP added, insisting millions of black people in this country “understood what much of the dog whistle politics and tone was on this issue.”

But he also insisted, “that does not mean that every single person who voted for Brexit was racist – some of my family voted for Brexit. But I think that there were drivers in that campaign which were certainly very unsavoury and which I would call racist.”

Meghan Markle a ‘victim of structural racism in the media’

Clive Lewis also suggested the Duchess of Sussex had been the victim of “structural racism” in the media.

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“We can see it with Meghan Markle and the way that she’s been treated in the media. We know this is a reality of the 21st century still after 400 years of racism,” the Labour leadership outside said.

"They used it…to divide our communities and divide our country"@labourlewis says part of the Brexit campaign "had racism at its core", and "for anyone to say there wasn't an element of racism in the Brexit project, you're basically wrong". #Ridge pic.twitter.com/xCxdo52WmU

— Sophy Ridge on Sunday & The Take (@RidgeOnSunday) January 12, 2020

Clive Lewis currently has just four nominations from MPs and MEPs – 18 short of the total he needs to secure by 2.30pm on Monday if he is to make it through to the next stage of the contest.

He has, however, not shied away from taking controversial stands, describing himself as a republican and calling for a referendum on the future monarchy.

Labour
Emily Thornberry has said she is confident she will get the nominations she needs to make it onto the ballot paper (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA)

Meanwhile shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who only has 10 nominations, has said she is “fairly confident” she will get the numbers needed by the Monday deadline.

“From the conversations I have had this weekend I am fairly confident that, as long as I don’t get any slippage I will be fine. I am going to get across the line and then we will move on to the next stage,” she told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show.

“It is a long contest and it will have its ups and downs. I have been a slow starter, but I did start from a standing start after the general election.”

Four other contenders – Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips – have already secured the support they need to go forward.

The favourite of the Labour left, dismissed suggestions that she was simply the “continuity Corbyn” candidate in the contest.

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Rebecca Long-Bailey has denied she is the ‘continuity Corbyn’ candidate (Joe Giddens/PA)

“It annoys me when people say that and unfortunately as a woman, it annoys me even more. I’m a person in my own right,” she told the Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme.

“I would describe myself as a socialist. I got involved in politics because of my principles and it’s my principles that drove me to stand to become leader of the Labour Party.”

The shadow business secretary compared the “hostility” she had experienced from some sections of the press to that suffered by the Duchess of Sussex.

“Meghan, she’s talked about hostility from other kind of sections of the press,” she said.

“Certainly one of the things I’ve witnessed in my early days of my campaign – this was even before I’d decided to stand as leader – were the levels of abuse and the fact that I was getting targeted above all the other candidates for some reason.

“It seemed quite hostile and I think she’s faced horrific abuse within the press and that’s not acceptable. Don’t attack a woman for the sake of attacking a woman.”

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