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Tory councillor fuels race row over school comments

A Conservative councillor is facing potential suspension over comments about immigrant school children.

Chichester Councillor John Cherry expressed fears about the number of ethnic minority students who would attend a local school, after a south London academy proposed to open an Eton-style boarding school in the West Sussex countryside. He told the Mail on Sunday:

Ninety-seven per cent of pupils will be black or Asian. It depends what type of Asian. If they're Chinese they'll rise to the top. If they're Indian they'll rise to the top. If they're Pakistani they won't.

There are certain nationalities where hard work is highly valued. There are certain nationalities where they are uncertain what this hard work is all about.

If the children are not allowed out of the site then it will make them want to escape into the forest - it will be a sexual volcano.