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Four minutes after 10.

I want you to bear with me because I'm going to talk about 30p Lee before I talk about

Diane Abbott.

And I want you to understand why.

You know that I believe, and I think we all know somewhere inside us, that race and class are

inextricably intertwined in this country. It is impossible to separate racism from what you could

loosely describe as snobbery. And the closest that a white British person will get to understanding

or being on the receiving end of the kind of discrimination

that people of colour routinely endure would be class-based discrimination.

Because I found myself feeling sorry for Lee Anderson in the last 24 hours. Listen, I think the man is hideous.

I think he is repellent in many ways and some of his pronouncements have been obnoxious

to the point of performative. But I felt sorry for him for two reasons. I felt sorry for him because

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