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Jenrick's Controversial Remarks Spark Outcry Over Integration
10/6/2025
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- Robert Jenrick criticized Handsworth in Birmingham for lacking white residents, calling it a sign of poor integration.
- He said he wants a country where people live alongside each other, not in parallel lives.
- Critics, including Labour MP Khalid Mahmood and independent MP Ayoub Khan, said his remarks stoke divisions.
- Labour chair Anna Turley argued the comments reduce people to skin color.
