Public Order

Nadia Whittome Excerpts

Monday 8th June 2020 Commons Chamber

[Priti Patel]

My hon. Friend the Member for North West Durham (Mr Holden) is absolutely right.

[Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East) (Lab)]

We will try again. Does the Home Secretary agree that the Government should remove statues of British figures involved in the slave trade? Further, does she agree that the lives of black people who have died following contact with police, such as Sarah Reed and Rashan Charles, are worth more than any statue?

[Priti Patel]

The hon. Lady will be well aware—perhaps she would like to lobby local authorities across the country to bring about the changes to statues. I notice that she celebrated the violence and criminal scenes that we saw across the weekend. I thought that the politics of protest and placards had left the Labour party with the departure of the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn).

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[Priti Patel]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the most extraordinary—

[Nadia Whittome]

All lives can’t matter until black lives matter.

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)]

Order.