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Default Amber Rudd on Radio 2 :describing Labour's Diane Abbott as 'coloured'
[Cabinet minister Amber Rudd 'mortified'
after describing Labour's Diane Abbott
as 'coloured'
The work and pensions secretary prompts
a fierce backlash after using
the "outdated" and "offensive" term.]

[The work and pensions secretary
prompted a fierce backlash after using
the term during a radio interview.]


It was the Jeremy Vine Radio 2 show

https://news.sky.com/story/cabinet-m...oured-11657773
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She should have called her a tw@ .... thats more acceptable
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Black People are angry on Radio Phone in's
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Its a lot more descriptive than lumping every one as black when few actually are
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Its a lot more descriptive than lumping every one as black when few actually are

Just a old UK saying
but some Black folk get very angry
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We are all coloured no one is opaque.
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and no one is black or white
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