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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me William Drumpel.

Now we have.

Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan.

And me, William Drumpel.

Now we have a burgeoning inbox and thank you so much for all of you who get in touch.

We do read everything and if we don't get back to you it's just sheer weight of numbers but we are

reading everything and William we've got a massive amount of interest in

explaining Ritchie Sunak well not him personally because that's not our

job but you know this whole phenomenon of

the Asian in East Africa there's been a lot of interest isn't there?

It is and it's something which I think has had very little play at all in the national consciousness.

We have a little bit of awareness in Britain of partition, but not much.

But the whole story of how so many British people prominent in public life in the case of

the just the Tory cabinet at the moment Ritchie soon at the Prime Minister

Priti Patel the ex-home Minister anda Braverman, the current home minister.

All three of them come from this background, along with many other people probably into public life

like Gorinda Chada and so on.

And this is a major part of of modern British history that

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