Jenrick refuses to withdraw his 'white face' jibe

ROBERT Jenrick has vowed to continue speaking out against segregation despite Labour calling him racist for saying he “didn't see another white face” in a district of Birmingham.

- By Jonathan Walker Whitehall Editor

Unlike other politicians, I won’t shy away from this issue. We have to integrate communities if we are to be a united country.”

The Shadow Justice Secretary was backed by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after he was recorded describing Handsworth as “one of the worst integrated places I’ve ever been to”.

The Tory MP told the Aldridge-Brownhills Conservative Association: “In the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn’t see another white face.

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