British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on the petrochemical billionaire Jim Ratcliffe to apologize for claiming the UK has been “colonized by immigrants.”
Starmer said Wednesday that Ratcliffe’s comments were “offensive and wrong,” adding that “Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country.”
Ratcliffe, who founded petrochemical company Ineos, is one of Britain’s richest men and the co-owner of Manchester United. He made his inflammatory comments to Sky News in a wide-ranging interview released earlier Wednesday.
“I don’t think the (British) economy is in a good place,” he said. “You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and…