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yeah. he has spoken to me about his experiences in 1960s, early 70s london, and it s fair to say our country s made huge progress. he s told me about a story when he was in the pub with his friends as a young man upon his arrival and being chased down the road by skinheads. and i can imagine the language they used. yeah, exactly. the p word. right. and he s been on the receiving end of verbal abuse. and i think about my experience growing up in london in the 1980s and onwards and not coming across anything near as aggressive, and intimidating and harassing. and so i really feel a sense of pride about race relations in the united kingdom and where we are as a nation, and how we re comfortable. that year that he fled kenya and came here was the year of enoch powell s river of blood speech. there were warnings of people being betrayed. ofjobs under threat, warnings that communities couldn t cope.

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