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Comments like Lee Anderson's 'despairingly racist', says civil rights leader

Sky News Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton has labelled comments such as those by MP Lee Anderson made about Sadiq Khan as "despairingly racist".
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