Islamophobia is reducing a historic chapter in the Conservative Party

Boris Johnson's successor will become known in September. There is a good chance that the UK's next prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party will be Rishi Sunak, who is of Indian origin. If Mr Sunak does get elected, he would be the first non-white British prime minister. But within that milestone are some rather uncomfortable truths, which show how much the UK has certainly not become a post-racist society.

This is beyond the historical ironies that exist in British political history, where the first non-white British prime minister, strictly speaking, served almost 150 years ago: Benjamin Disraeli. Disraeli was of Jewish origin, of a British ethnic minority, although he himself became Anglican Christian and was deeply imperialist. But he is not noted as having struggled tremendously to become a British politician.

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