Priti Patel defends PM: Racism claims "utter nonsense"
Home Secretary Priti Patel has criticised rapper Dave for branding BorisJohnson a "real racist" during the Brit Awards.
The Witham MP said the artist's comments shortly before winning album of the year were "utter nonsense", and she defended the Prime Minister as "not a racist at all".
Dave added verses to the end of his song Black criticising the Government for the Windrush scandal and its handling of the Grenfell disaster.<
"The truth is our Prime Minister's a real racist," he rapped during theperformance at London's O2 Arena.
Ms Patel was asked about Dave's criticism as she defended the Government's immigration plans to refuse visas to low-skilled migrant workers after Brexit.
Speaking to Sky News she said:
But the rap was backed by Tory peer Baroness Warsi, who highlighted Downing Street's hiring of aide Andrew Sabisky, who claimed black people have lower IQs.
Mr Sabisky stood down amid mounting pressure when a slew of highly-criticised past comments surfaced, but No 10 has failed to condemn his remarks.
Labour is demanding to know whether the PM agrees with Mr Sabisky's views, pointing to an article published in The Spectator magazine when Mr Johnson was its editor which claimed "blacks are at the other pole" to "orientals" who have "larger brains".