Ed Davey has spoken to Politics Home about the death of Jason Arday following an extended period of vicious press coverage.
Davey told PoliticsHome that parts of the media had seemed to “focus in on it and attack him in a way which seems awfully disproportionate, unfair, mean, and nasty”.
What it shows is that we have to push back against this Trump-like attack on liberal values where we embrace everybody equally and respect everybody.
“There seems to be a movement, particularly on the right, to move away from the liberal progress I thought we made, where we respect people, we judge them on their merit, and we celebrate the contribution that everybody made.”
However, the Lib Dem leader said it was “very difficult” to hold any one person or organisation to account for the treatment of Arday.
“There are different parts of the media jumping on that shameful bandwagon, but I think we’ve got to see the problem facing our country on a broad level,” he said.
The article also references the open letter by BLAC Liberal Democrats which we published earlier this week.
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One Comment
Ed, the word you are after is ‘racist’.
‘Mean’ is utterly inadequate.
Do better. Now.