By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-03-30 19:41:04 | Updated at 2025-04-01 16:46:59
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Editors at The Guardian helped fan the flames behind the Southport riots, a Tory peer has claimed.
Lord Sewell said the "liberal elite" had ignored white working-class Britons for too long, and that the left-wing newspaper played a part in seeding discontent in the country's left-behind communities.
Instead, The Guardian preferred to promote ideas of racial "victimhood", Sewell, who previously led an inquiry into racial disparities in Britain, added.
Speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival, the peer said: "Those riots came out of [a] combination of two people: Guardian editors and arsonists.
A Guardian editorial column covering the aftermath of the riots warned of 'far-right influence'
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Eventually, more than 800 charges were brought against those who participated in the unrest
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Sewell had chaired the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities
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Sewell had chaired the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which was launched to scrutinise claims that Britain was a racist country in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
In 2021, it concluded that Britain was not institutionally racist.
The peer added that research showed white working-class men had far worse outcomes in Britain than many ethnic minorities.
Lord Sewell said The Guardian had led the backlash against his commission's conclusion, saying: "They wanted to know more about victimhood, more about racism, more about how these horrible white people are oppressing black people."
GB News has approached The Guardian for comment.
