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title: "After the Rishi Sunak controversy, Trevor Noah claims he never suggested the entire UK is racist."
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# After the Rishi Sunak controversy, Trevor Noah claims he never suggested the entire UK is racist.
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> The comedian Trevor Noah has said he did not claim “the entire UK is racist” after a row over his skit about Rishi Sunak’s appointment as the UK prime minister.
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Following a controversy over his sketch on **Rishi Sunak^/s** election as UK prime minister, comedian Trevor Noah has clarified that he did not assert "the entire UK is racist."**This week, Noah claimed on the American television programme The Daily Show that there had been a "backlash" to Sunak^/s remarks, which had drawn heavy criticism in the UK. Sajid Javid, a former chancellor, claimed Noah was "just wrong."  
However, the comedian has since defended his piece, claiming that he was responding to racists when he added, "That^/s why I said^/some people^/."

Sunak, the first Hindu and British-Asian prime minister of the United Kingdom, was born to Indian parents in Hampshire. On Tuesday, he assumed his position as PM and head of the Conservative Party**.

Noah, a South African who grew up under apartheid, said in his initial comments on the US programme: "You hear a lot of the folks screaming, ^/Oh, they^/re taking over, now the Indians are going to take over Great Britain and what^/s next?^/"

And I frequently ask myself, "So what? What frightens you? I believe this is the case because many people don^/t realise they are saying, "We don^/t want these once oppressed people to get power because they might do to us what we did to them.

When a caller erroneously claimed Sunak was "not even British" during the Conservative leadership contest a week ago, Noah aired a clip from LBC radio during his farce.

In reaction, Javid tweeted that Noah^/s remarks were "totally wrong" and that Britain was "proud of our historic achievement as the most successful multiracial democracy on planet."

Rory Stewart, a past candidate for the Tory leadership, called Noah^/s comments "absolutely odd" and an instance of "lazy stereotyping."  
Sunak doesn^/t think Britain is a racist nation, according to Downing Street, which stated this on Thursday.

Additionally, the host Piers Morgan tweeted that American media "falsely portrays Britain as a racist country."

Noah answered on Friday night. Piers, you^/re smarter than that, he replied, "come on."

I was reacting to the bigots who don^/t want Rishi as PM because of his colour, not stating that everyone in the UK is racist. Because of this, I said "some folks."

Noah has long discussed racial injustice. A allusion to the fact that he was born in South Africa to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a period when such a connection was punishable by incarceration, he published a book in 2017 with the working title Born a Crime.

Before migrating to the US in 2011, he started his career in South Africa, where he produced a number of stand-up specials and hosted a late-night chat show.

Since 2015, he has served as host of The Daily Show, a late-night chat show and satirical news programme. Last month, he made the announcement that he will be stepping down.
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