Equalities minister under fire for writing she does not ‘care about colonialism’

Warnings issued that Kemi Badenoch's messages could drive black supporters away from Tory party

The equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, has been criticised after leaked messages revealed she claimed not to care about colonialism", amid warnings that Conservatives could haemorrhage support from the black community.

Badenoch, whose brief was recently expanded to include a junior ministerial position in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, reportedly wrote: I don't care about colonialism because [I] know what we were doing before colonialism got there. They came in and just made a different bunch of winners and losers.