The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

Now, it's time to move straight away to the business at hand.

And let us talk to Dr. Rikiba San, independent expert in British public attitudes.

A man who has said many very, very sage things in the past and who I'm sure will say the same

sage things again today.

Rakeeb, very good morning to you.

Morning, Mike. How are you?

Yeah, very well indeed.

Thanks for coming on this morning.

I want to tackle the problem of racism in this country

because I'm one of those people who believes that this is not a racist country

by any way, shape or form.

Because of what happened on Sunday night at Wembley you know we have been led to believe that

there are a lot of racist people in this country i'm not sure that that's true but the ones who are

racist in this country and who we keep saying will always be racist i think need to be found i think they

need to be expunged in some way um and i think they need to be removed from from this country because they're a stain on it.

Mike, I think that in terms of looking at the country as a whole, I'd say that England is one

the most tolerant anti-discrimination pro-equality nations on earth. And there's a range of survey

data which supports that. What we do have though, we do still have a hardcore fringe of racist bigots.

And some of them have indulged in racist abuse being directed towards Jaden Sancho,

Marcus Rashford and Bukaiy Saka after they missed their penalties against Italy

in the final on Sunday night. I agree with you in that much of this abuse has taken place on

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