Jenrick’s ‘segregation’ comments are straight out of Trump’s playbook
The IndependentWe have been here before. I had to come to the defence of Tower Hamlets, the east London borough where I live when, earlier this year, Paul Scully, the otherwise sensible and moderate Conservative former minister, spoke of “no-go areas” there and in “parts of Birmingham Sparkhill”. Now Robert Jenrick, the former moderate Conservative who has acquired a harder edge as an anti-immigration candidate for the party leadership, has condemned “segregated communities” in Birmingham. Johnson cast diplomatic caution to one side to declare: “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.” I am not saying that Johnson is a model to be followed, but it is notable that Conservative politicians who actually represent areas traduced by outsiders tend to push back against such prejudice. Andy Street, the Tory former mayor of the West Midlands, was outraged by Paul Scully’s reference to no-go areas in Birmingham Sparkhill, and would presumably take issue with Jenrick’s “segregation” comment too.
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