The exceptional factor concerning the election of Britain’s first non-white Prime Minister is how unremarkable, for most individuals, it has been, writes Nick Timothy.
American tv hosts have invented public outrage that by no means occurred. Left-wing columnists have succumbed to racism themselves as they realise the get together they revile as bigoted is actually relaxed about being led by a British Indian.
Most voters, in the meantime, are eager solely to know what Rishi Sunak can ship.
The story tells us one thing we ought to know, however typically overlook. Britain will not be America, with its racialised tradition wars, universities riven by vital race concept, and authentic sin of slavery and racism.
Neither, on this respect not less than, are we like most different European nations, the place it stays unimaginable {that a} non-white politician would possibly grow to be prime minister or president.
Nick Timothy: Britain is 2 nations – one comfortable with diveristy, one other badly divided