When I speak to civil servants next month about my book Not So Black and White, it will be, according to former home secretary Priti Patel, “an extraordinary betrayal of the voters who elected us to take back control of our borders in 2019”.
The meeting is organised by the Open Innovation Team, a government unit that engages with academics to see how their research might feed into policy. It was interested in my work on the history of ideas about race and identity and the ways in which that history could illuminate contemporary social issues.
