Kemi Badenoch has built her career on speaking what appear to be plain truths about the politics of race in Britain. She has pointed out that the British experience is very different from that in America, and yet a lot of the assumptions about American racism have been imported into this country.
She has caused controversy by saying that Britain is one of the least racist countries in the world – which is true, and something to be proud of, but it does not mean that there are still not terrible injustices suffered by groups defined by the colour of their skin.
