Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner of the Manchester United soccer club and founder of the INEOS chemicals group, faced backlash from Prime Minister Keir Starmer after he told Sky News that the United Kingdom is being “colonized” by immigrants.
“You can’t have an economy with 9 million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he told Sky News on Wednesday. “I mean, the U.K. has been colonized. It’s costing too much money.”
“The U.K. has been colonized by immigrants, really, hasn’t it? I mean, the population of the U.K. was 58 million in 2000, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people,” he continued.
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Starmer, embroiled in other controversies this week, blasted Ratcliffe’s comments in a post on social media, saying, “Offensive and wrong. Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country. Jim Ratcliffe should apologise.”
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