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This is a global player original podcast. Today at the Conservative Party conference, the keynote speech

was delivered by the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick, except for the fact that some comments he made nearly six months ago

are gaining far more attention than what he said in the hall in Manchester.

You know, I went to Hansworth in Birmingham the other day to do a video on litter,

and it was absolutely appalling. It was as close as I've come to a slum in this country.

But the other thing that I noticed there was that it was one of the worst integrated places

that I've ever been to.

In fact, in the hour and a half that I was filming with news there, I didn't see another white face.

And that's not the kind of country I want to live in. I want to live in a country where people

are properly integrated. It's not about the colour of your skin or your faith. Of course it isn't,

but I want people to be living alongside each other, not parallel lives. That's not the right

way we want to live as a country. I didn't see another white face.

Ten years ago, maybe even five years ago,

comments like that would have got you the sack from the front bench of any major political party.

But this morning, Robert Jenrick and his leader,

Kemi Badernock, have come out fighting.

What does this tell us about the direction of the Conservative Party?

Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And those comments by Robert Jenrick were obtained

by the Guardian newspaper and chose this morning to put them up online.

And Lewis, as you say, five years ago, I think the party would have been doing its best to say,

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