Emily Maitlis
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It needs to be thoroughly investigated.
And I think they're waiting for the police inquiry to take place.
But what she said was, I don't care about black lives.
I don't care about white lives.
You know, I want to get to the bottom of this.
And reform essentially just took out the... The only clip was, I don't want to hear about white lives.
And like, she doesn't care about white lives.
I mean, just ridiculous and so easily demonstrably false.
But it is interesting to see, I guess, the age old adage, my enemy's enemy becomes my friend.
So now Rupert Lowe is backing Kemi Badenoch because he feels that his enemy here is Farage.
The Prime Minister actually thanked Kemi Badenoch in the Commons today for her response and her handling of this.
And we are into what feels like quite new territory, which is the two main parties, what were formerly the main parties, are feeling like the grown-ups in the room now.
And this horrible swirl of misinformation and racialised ramping up is all happening in the sort of
hard right periphery of who can say the most shocking thing because they think that's where the British public is.
And actually, my sense is the British public is not there at all.
The British public is frankly with the family of Henry Novak.
And all you have to do
is go back to that poor boy's father who must have anticipated this, who could have seen, as we all could, this coming and said, I don't want any more hatred, any more division, any more tension to come of this.
And it took them less than 24 hours.
to turn this into an absolute shitshow?