“I see white people every day. A lot of white people [come in to] my shop. My shop accommodates all different type of people.”

Dave Gordon, owner of Grandad’s Tastee Patties in Handsworth, Birmingham, doesn’t recognise Robert Jenrick’s comments about not seeing “another white face” while visiting the area.

The senior Conservative MP had been urged to apologise after a recording from March obtained by The Guardian showed him saying that the inner-city area “was one of the worst integrated places I’ve ever been to”. New Feature

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Jenrick doubled down on his comments this week, saying he would not “shy away” from issues of integration, and that the remarks in which he compared the area to a “slum” were an “observation”.

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