Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said UK press coverage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was not racist.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, the Opposition leader was asked if he would describe the coverage Prince Harry and Meghan received as bigoted.
He shook his head and said, ‘I wouldn’t’, the newspaper reported.
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry said a ‘large part’ of why he and Meghan left the UK was racism.
While his wife was being criticised in the press, he claimed someone told him: ‘Please don’t do this with the media. They will destroy your life.’
Harry added: ‘This person is friends with a lot of the editors.’
He asked them to ‘elaborate’ on what they meant, and his source said: ‘You have to understand, the UK is very bigoted.’
The prince added: ‘I stopped, and I said, “The UK is not bigoted, the UK press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids. Is that what you mean?”
‘And he goes, “No, the UK is bigoted.” And I said, “I completely disagree…”‘
Harry then said: ‘But unfortunately, if the source of the information is inherently corrupt or racist or biased, then that filters out to the rest of society.’
Starmer said he was not in a position to say if every word the couple said to Oprah was true,…
