This is The Guardian.

immigrants shouldn't have to keep justifying themselves.

I mean, the UK's being colonised.

It's been colonised.

The UK's being colonised by immigrants, really, isn't it?

These comments feel particularly poisonous.

In an industry that, frankly, would collapse overnight if it weren't for immigrant labour.

It's the billionaire class.

It's the tax exiles living in Monaco.

These are the colonizers.

They are the ones who are colonising our society.

A claim that the UK is being colonised by immigrants from the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United has been met with Outcry.

From The Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

Joining me is Jonathan Liu, a sports writer and columnist for The Guardian.

And Jonathan, you were incidentally travelling to Manchester today to cover the Gorton and Denton bi-election right, but you find yourself at the centre of the news storm. Hi, thanks for having me. I know, yeah, I'm here to do a piece on the by-election, but, you know, they say good journalist, the news follows them. So here we are. Lucky you. So, Johnny, before we proceed,

I just want to talk a bit about who Sir Jim Ratcliffe is. He is, I think it's safe to say,

the unloved co-owner of Manchester United. He's a billionaire, a chemical engineer. He lives in

Monaco, where he enjoys his tax benefits, right? Yeah, Britain's richest man, I thought, or maybe one of Britain's richest men.

You think he bought...

Seventh Richesman.

Oh, well, well, that's Manchester United for you.

So he's given an interview to Ed Conway of Sky News, a wide-ranging interview, shall we say, that covered his business affairs, it covered politics.

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