No one cares that Britain's new PM is not white — except angry anti-racists, writes Dan Hannan.
He is, I keep seeing online, not properly Asian, because he is well off, well spoken, and privately educated.
While all this ugliness is bubbling away on the Left, Sunak’s race is a matter of almost complete indifference on the Right. He is hailed by some and denounced by others for scrapping his predecessor Liz Truss’s scheduled tax cuts. But beyond some mild satisfaction that the Tories have lived up to their self-image as the party of hard work and opportunity, no one cares about the PM’s ethnicity.
You do? Really? A lot of people? I guess I must be talking to the wrong people, but what do I know? I just live here. That, however, is just a minor quibble. The more serious criticism of the Left's reaction to Sunak’s win — The Daily Show is an outlier, but not by much — is that it is based on a fantasy. The Conservative Party has given Britain its only Jewish prime minister, its only three female prime ministers, and now, its first Hindu prime minister.
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