Nursery trainer tells of racist abuse after Tory MP calls work ‘brainless’

Liz Pemberton, who runs a business called the Black Nursery Manager, speaking at the Nursery World Show last month. Photograph: The Black Nursery Manager

An early years trainer has said she received a torrent of racist emails after a Conservative politician described her work as “brainless nonsense” and called for her to be “defunded”.

Liz Pemberton, who runs an anti-racist training and consultancy company called the Black Nursery Manager, said her inbox had been flooded with abuse since the comments, by the former education minister Sir John Hayes, were reported this month.