In 2022, when Nigel Farage tweeted with alarm about figures showing that London, Birmingham and Manchester were now all “minority white cities”, Sajid Javid, then Conservative MP and former Home Secretary, responded: “So what?” Last year, Dame Sara Khan began a government report into social cohesion by saying: “Britain’s most precious asset is our diverse and cohesive democracy.” Fraser Nelson, Times columnist and former editor of the Spectator, has described modern multicultural Britain as an “integration miracle” and insists that “London is a better city than it was a decade ago”. Sunder Katwala is so committed to his think tank’s pro-immigration, pro-multiculturalism ideology that he has described native Britons merely as these islands’ “prior residents”.
What links these four public figures – other than each being cheerleaders-cum-apologists for multiculturalism and demographic change? Each will be on the Government’s new Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion (ICCC) (along with sundry other centrists), convened as a response to the anti-immigration Southport riots last summer. Supposedly, it will address the deep societal fractures and public discontent which that unrest brought into sharp relief. “Communal life in Britain is under threat like never before,” Javid, the co-chair, told the Telegraph, “and intervention is urgently needed.”
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