‘Detached from reality’: Trevor Noah’s view of racist Sunak ‘backlash’ divides opinion

Authors and politicians have accused the US comedian of projecting an American cultural context on to the UK

The row began with a single call to a UK radio station, was stoked by one of America's best-known comedians and ended with former cabinet ministers wading in - and Downing Street, too.

At the heart of the furore: a claim that Rishi Sunak had experienced a racist backlash" after becoming the UK's first British-Asian prime minister.