Ratcliffe backlash: outrage over immigration claim – The Latest

拉特克利夫反弹:对移民指控的愤怒 —— 最新动态

Today in Focus

2026-02-13

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The Monaco-based billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has said he is sorry that his ‘choice of language has offended some people’, after growing outrage over his comments that the UK was being ‘colonised by immigrants’. The Manchester United co-owner has faced a mounting backlash since making the remarks, which have been labelled hypocritical and reminiscent of ‘far-right narratives’. Lucy Hough speaks to the sports writer and columnist Jonathan Liew – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Immigrants shouldn't have to keep justifying themselves.

  • I mean, the UK's being colonised.

  • It'll have caused the UK's being colonised by immigrants really, isn't it?

  • These comments feel particularly poisonous.

  • In an industry that frankly would collapse overnight if it were for immigrant labour.

  • It's the billionaire class.

  • It's the tax exiles living in Monaco.

  • These are the colonisers.

  • They are the ones who are colonising our society.

  • A claim that the UK is being colonised by immigrants from the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United has been met with outcry.

  • From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hov.

  • Joining me is Jonathan Liu, a sports writer and columnist for The Guardian.

  • And Jonathan,

  • you were incidentally travelling to Manchester today to cover the Gorton and Denton by-election,

  • right?

  • But you find yourself at the centre of the new storm.

  • Hi, thanks for having me.

  • I know I'm here to do a piece on the by-election, but you know, they say...

  • Good journalist, the news follows them.