Integration Lack of white faces in inner Birmingham, Jenrick says

Robert Jenrick has complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face”, adding: “That’s not the kind of country I want to live in”.

- Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

The shadow justice secretary later insisted he wanted people to live alongside each other, saying integration was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith”.

Jenrick made the comments, which were recorded, during a dinner at the Aldridge-Brownhills Conservative Association dinner on 14 March after he had recorded a video for GB News about litter in the suburb.

He told the dinner: “I went to Handsworth in Birmingham the other day to do a video on litter and it was absolutely appalling. It’s as close as I’ve come to a slum in this country.