Badenoch defends Jenrick’s ‘no white faces’ comments about Birmingham
by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor from World news | The Guardian on (#70JQB)
Tory leader says nothing wrong with making observations', after Jenrick said Handsworth was as close as I've come to a slum in this country'
Kemi Badenoch has defended her colleague Robert Jenrick over his complaint about not seeing another white face" in a part of Birmingham but said the debate should not be about what people look like in the streets.
The Conservative leader said the shadow justice secretary had made a factual statement" and there was nothing wrong with making observations". But she also told BBC Breakfast: I don't think this is where the debate should be, about how many faces people see on the street and what they look like."
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