Britain’s the best place to be Black, says Kemi Badenoch. But ask yourself: is it as good as being white?

Kemi Badenoch: ‘I tell my children this is the best country in the world to be Black – because it’s a country that sees people, not labels.’ Photograph: Gary Roberts Photography/Shutterstock

In the age of Brexit, the cost of living crisis, high inflation, high interest rates, high taxation, low growth, climate crisis and serious international turmoil, the business secretary might make headlines talking about business and economics. But then Kemi Badenoch is not in the running to improve Britain, she is in the running to lead the Conservative party. She is here to do well: and if you want to do well in certain echelons of British life, there are 14 words that govern your every utterance: “No Black person ever went broke telling white people what they want to hear.”

With that in mind, this is Kemi: “I tell my children this is the best country in the world to be Black – because it’s a country that sees people, not labels.” Back of the net. She continued: “It wasn’t a tough decision for us to reject the divisive agenda of critical race theory. We believe, as Martin Luther King once said, people should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin.”