INEOS desperately attempted to shut down Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s latest Sky News interview following his shock remarks about immigration.
The 73-year-old while speaking to Ed Conway this week.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe claimed that the UK has been ‘colonised by immigrants’Credit: Sky
Sky News reporter Ed Conway revealed that Ratcliffe’s team attempted to shut the interview downCredit: Sky
His comments .
They also left players dismayed, with to outline their commitment to ethnic minority groups.
The INEOS chief subsequently with his choice of language.
But Sky News reporter Conway has suggested that Ratcliffe knew exactly what he was saying – sending his team into a panic.
Asked if the choice of language was deliberate, he explained: “Well, I asked him, I said, ‘colonised?’
“Because I couldn’t quite believe he used that word. And he said, ‘well, yeah, we’ve been colonised by immigrants.’
“He definitely did not choose that word by accident. And he hasn’t retracted that word subsequently either.
“When I said ‘colonised’ as if to, I wasn’t quite sure I’d heard properly, he said, ‘yeah, we’re colonised.’
“And then he said, ‘look at the population of the UK, it was 58million in 2020, now it’s up to 70million.’ And that number is wrong.
“At the same point that he is then using that statistic, someone from INEOS is trying to shut down the interview, saying, ‘no no, come on, you’ve had enough, it’s over.'”
One senior in response to Ratcliffe’s remarks.
A source close to another player said the club chief “had a lot to answer for” in the wake of the interview.
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