"On Friday, Pochin, who is Reform UK's MP for Runcorn and Helsby, complained that every advert seemed to feature black and Asian people, as she responded to a viewer on TalkTV who had complained about the demographics of advertising. Pochin said the viewer was absolutely right, adding it doesn't reflect our society and I feel that your average white person, average white family is not represented any more, blaming the woke liberati in the arty-farty world."
"Streeting hardened Labour's attack on Reform, as he told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show he had spent time in a London secondary school on Friday, listening to boys describe racist abuse in one of the most diverse cities on Earth. What they are describing, and what we have seen on our streets in recent weeks and months is a return of [the] 1970s, 1980s-style racism I thought we had left in the history books."
"She later apologised, saying her comments were phrased poorly and she had not intended to cause offence. The point I was trying to make is that the British advertising agency world has gone DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] mad and many adverts are now unrepresentative of British society as a whole. I will endeavour to ensure my language is more accurate going forward."
Reform MP Sarah Pochin complained that many adverts seem to feature black and Asian people and said the average white person and family are no longer represented, blaming 'the woke liberati' and suggesting representation might be fine inside the M25 but not elsewhere. She later apologised, saying her comments were phrased poorly and that British advertising agencies have 'gone DEI mad', promising to use more accurate language. Health secretary Wes Streeting accused her of making racist remarks, said she was only sorry to have been caught, and warned of a return to 1970s–1980s-style racism. Labour chair Anna Turley condemned the remarks but stopped short of calling them racist.
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