Chris Philp repeatedly refuses to call Sarah Pochin’s comment on TV adverts ‘racist’

Shadow Home Sec. Chris Philp refuses to call Sarah Pochin's advert comment 'racist'Credit: BBC

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00:00Well, it's certainly not language that I would use, and I don't think politicians should speak in those terms.

00:05Look, I'm not going to start throwing names around, but it's not language that I would have used.

00:10Look, I think the public do have...

00:11Hang on, sorry, Wes Streeting just said very clearly in his view that was racist.

00:14Do you say it was racist or not?

00:16I'm not going to repeat, I'm not going to call her that word.

00:19It's not language I would have used, but we should acknowledge the public do have concerns,

00:25legitimate concerns about large-scale immigration that needs to be controlled,

00:30and discussing that certainly is not racist.

00:32But do you agree with her that seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people on TV

00:38is something that ought not to be seen?

00:40No, I don't agree with her, but I do think, and I wouldn't use that language...

00:44But is it racist language? It's a very straightforward question.

00:47No, I'm not calling her racist, no.

00:50I'm not asking you to call an individual fellow MP racist.

00:53I'm asking you if, in your view, it is a racist sentiment to say

00:58I don't like seeing black or Asian people on TV.

01:01I don't think that's language that politicians should use.