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A human rights lawyer has prompted outrage after accusing Number 10 of using a 'racial trope' to defend itself over a UN report that called Britain racist because a spokesman called it 'superficial'.
Dominique Day chaired a working group of experts on people of African descent which said there had been a failure to tackle 'systemic' racism in the UK. But the government 'strongly' rejected most of its findings and said the report presented a 'superficial analysis' of complex issues.
In response, the American attorney claimed the word 'superficial' was an 'upgrade' from 'lazy' - which she said was used in one meeting during her 10-day fact-finding trip - and called it a 'familiar racial trope'.
But former Cabinet minister Shailesh Vara, whose family moved to Britain from Uganda in the 1960s, told MailOnline the Downing Street response was ‘not a trope in any way’.
Dominique Day chaired a working group of experts on people of African descent which said there had been a failure to tackle 'systemic' racism in the UK
In response, the American attorney claimed the word 'superficial' was an 'upgrade' from 'lazy'
‘A 10-day tour around England is hardly a proper way to truly understand the situation. Of course it is superficial analysis, it is not a trope in any way,’ the Tory MP said.
‘The UN report doesn’t reflect the UK as it is. The fact that so many people from across the world want to come and live here sends out a powerful message and speaks volumes to rebut the UN analysis.’
Ms Day is chair of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, which visited the UK last week to discover evidence of 'racism, xenophobia and Afrophobia'.
She later tweeted: 'When the UK gov’t called our 20-pg PRELIMINARY findings superficial (upgrade from ‘'lazy'' used in one mtg), the familiar racial trope recalled the surreality of confronting anti-Blackness bodied as I am.'
The UN group visited London, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester, meeting police and government officials.
Its members also had a 'robust' discussion with Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, an anti-woke Tory 'rising star' who was born in Nigeria and
