“What I was trying to emphasise was nothing to do with race,” he said, claiming that had been wrongly inferred by the “usual witch hunters who hate GB News and hate me in particular”.ĭr Starkey sparked the row when, in his Thursday appearance on the TV channel, he said Mr Sunak – the first non-white occupant of No 10 – was “a man of immense talent, of extraordinary skill, but really not fully grounded in our culture”.Īsked to explain his comment, made as he criticised the Prime Minister for being “invisible” in preparations for the Coronation, he said: “In terms of religion.”
The historian batted away accusations of racism that arose from his original comment. All his speeches are technical.” Accusations of racism “He’s never shown any sign of an understanding of our history or of a concern with it. He said: “Mr Sunak has never talked about values.
He thinks in terms of spreadsheets.”ĭr Starkey described the Prime Minister as a member of a “highly technical elite”. He added: “So we have a Prime Minister who is astonishingly intelligent, but I think sees things as an MBA (Master of Business Administration). His wife is non-dom.” ‘That terrible degree called PPE’ĭr Starkey said that at Oxford, Mr Sunak read “that terrible degree called PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), which has destroyed our governing class”, going on to California’s Stanford business school. He said: “Even when he became – I think it was on the point of becoming Prime Minister – he had an American green card.
The academic was accused of making derogatory references to Mr Sunak’s British-Indian descent and Hindu faith when he made the initial comment on Thursday.ĭr Starkey returned to GB News to defend himself on Friday, claiming his remarks had been “wilfully misconstrued” and that he had “never ever, ever said anything racist in my life”.īut he went on to attack Mr Sunak’s education and career in the United States, which he said made him a member of a “highly technical elite”. Her father would kill her mother and she would be disinherited.Historian David Starkey has denied his remarks about Rishi Sunak not being “fully grounded in our culture” were racist, saying he was referring to the Prime Minister being a “typical international liberal” with no interest in British “values”.The right of women to succeed to the throne was still in doubt.Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII.English noblemen and foreign princes wooed her.Elizabeth reigned for 45 years and her ships sailed round the world and defeated the Armada, Shakespeare wrote plays and Spenser wrote poems.She was the last of the Tudor dynasty and dazzled the nation and the world.January 1559 Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England.
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