Liverpool backs David Lammy after Labour MP puts woman who said he’d ‘never be English’ in her place

Labour MP David Lammy has received backing from people across Liverpool after dealing with a caller on LBC who told him he would “never be English.”

The politician was discussing Boris Johnson’s racial disparity commission’s calls to scrap the term ‘ BAME ‘ when he was faced with caller Jean, who the station had decided to put through to speak to him.

Among several racist views expressed, Jean said: “How can you be African-Caribbean and English? I couldn’t be African, I’m English.

“I’m Anglo-Saxon, you will never be English, you are African Caribbean.”

David said: “Why will I never be English?”

Jean said: “Because you’re African Caribbean.”

David said: “Jean, just a little bit of history on this.

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“Britain, 400 years ago, started going out into the world. It colonised and conquered a lot of the world.

“A lot of the world has ended up coming back to the mother country, my parents were part of that generation who came from the Caribbean.

“When I took a DNA test I actually had Scottish in me, probably as a result of that someone, somewhere frankly got their leg over with one of my ancestors.

“I’ve got Scottish blood running through me, I’ve said that gently but it could have been horrendous let’s be clear about that.

“Here I am, having grown up in this country, have been born of this country and actually, the truth is it’s a myth that there’s one English ethnicity, there’s not.”

Jean went on to say that the movement of people around the world is “pollution”, and throughout Mr Lammy remained calm and polite.

Afterwards the MP took to Twitter to share a clip from his LBC appearance, tweeting: “Don’t ever tell me I’m “not English”.”

People in Liverpool were outraged by the incident, pushing David’s name to the top of trending tweets in the area.

@utlaegr said: “That David Lammy can remain patient and polite when the caller starts talking about ‘polluting’ the English race is remarkable.”

@JamesBrittles said: “Some horrendous ideologies in our country. Well done David Lammy for keeping your cool.”

@LisaLWorth1 said: “How David Lammy manages this caller so politely I have no idea. I really don’t care how old she is. What she says is ignorant and vicious.”