Nowhere is better to be Black than in Britain

Cabinet minister Kemi Badenoch has insisted that Britain is the best country in the world to black – accusing Labour of bowing before the “altar of intolerance”.



The business secretary appeared to reject a claim by home secretary Suella Braverman – a possible future leadership rival – that multiculturalism in the UK had “failed”.



Ms Badenoch, who is also equalities minister, used her conference speech in Manchester to claim that only the Tories “tell the truth” on race.

The “anti-woke” Tory condemned a left-wing “narrative that says there is no point in trying, because British society is against you and you’re better off asking for reparations, a narrative that tells children like mine that the odds are stacked against them”.



She added: “I tell my children that is the best country in the world to be black – because it’s a country that sees people, not labels.”



Ms Badenoch warned that advocates of identity politics [Labour and the left] are seeking to “re-racialise” society. The business secretary claimed Labour wanted to “bend the knee before this altar of intolerance”, and invoked the words of American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King.