Sneerer Pochin the result of a climate of hate

ASK Sir Keir "Island of Strangers" Starmer about Sarah Pochin.

- DARREN LEWIS

Ask the Prime Minister how we've arrived at a place where a sitting MP can feel empowered enough to say, “It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”.

Ask Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who seems to have forgotten his boss evoked the race hate dripping from Enoch Powell's notorious racist Rivers of Blood speech, earlier this year.

Ask Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who laughed (check the footage) as Starmer accused another MP, Liz Saville Roberts, of “talking rubbish” in the Commons when she called him out on it. The climate has been fomenting for years.

Ask Boris “Muslim women wearing burqas look like letter boxes and bank robbers” Johnson, who doubled down on his remarks in 2018.

Ask Theresa “Go home vans” May, whose hostile environment and immigration policies were the forerunners to the Tory and Reform extremism we see today.

Ask the breakfast shows that have allowed xenophobes and racists to rage-bait and drip-feed their poisonous, alarmist culture wars into the nation’s bloodstream for social media likes and retweets.