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The new leader of Catholics in England and Wales has branded comments by billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe on immigration “deeply unhelpful” and spoken against the Government’s policy to house asylum seekers in military accommodation.Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim has since apologised if his language that the UK had been “colonised” by migrants had “offended some people in the UK and Europe”.

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00:00It's certainly a very big role, very big, and I'm very conscious of that.
00:06So there is a lot to take in, a lot to take on.
00:09I've been involved at national level in smaller ways.
00:12I've been Chair of the Department of Social Justice for the Bishops' Conference now for a good few years.
00:19National roles in relation to prisons.
00:22So I've got some experience of the national scene.
00:26I think it's deeply, deeply unhelpful for that reason that I've mentioned.
00:31That it kind of paints, put it this way, it paints with too broad a brush.
00:40And at the end of this is a human person.
00:43We must shine the light on the dignity of that person.
00:47I think that's something that the Gospel brings, that the Church brings into the world.
00:52It's shining that light on the dignity of every man, every woman.
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