Toyin Agbetu, who was appointed to the Mayor of London s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, has been accused of racism over controversial blog posts.
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“Some people are trying to engineer a culture war because it plays to the hinterland or it gets more listeners to LBC,” said Mayor Khan on the LBC radio station, after the host former BBC presenter and fanatical anti-Brexiteer James O’Brien said some people were suggesting he “spent more time worrying about statues than stabbed teenagers.”
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Mr Bailey said Agbetu once called the Metropolitan Police institutionally racist