Britain is becoming more racist, Shabana Mahmood has said as she described the abuse that she and her family have faced.
The Home Secretary has asserted that racial prejudice is increasing across the country, characterising the nation as experiencing a decline in community relations between different ethnic groups.
Ms Mahmood expressed her view that the country has witnessed a deterioration in racial tolerance during recent times.
The senior cabinet minister, who holds the position of Britain's first female Muslim Home Secretary, shared these observations whilst discussing the current state of race relations in the UK.
She told the Times: “Being called a ‘f****** P***’ is not a new thing for me, but there’s a lot more of it around in recent times than there has been over the course of the rest of my life.
“And more of my own family have been racially abused in that way recently. My family members, my immediate family members, my extended family members, my parents, my siblings, my cousins.
“There are examples across our family and also the people I represent, of more people telling me about being sworn at, told to f*** off home.”
The Home Secretary connected these troubling developments to broader societal concerns, arguing that racial intolerance would continue to escalate if anxieties surrounding immigration remain unaddressed.
She added: “That’s becoming a bit too common these days again. ‘F****** P***’, ‘f****** Muslim’, headscarf-wearing Muslim women in particular attract ‘f****** Muslim’ on a regular basis.
“The position on race relations, I feel, if you’re an ethnic minority in Britain, you can say with confidence unfortunately, has deteriorated.”
She also denied claims that she was "acting against the interests of the people that I represent".
She said: “I was frustrated because I felt what I was hearing was a kind of ‘get in your lane’ and ‘you’re supposed to think a particular way’. And, ‘how dare you as a woman of your background think or say other things?’”
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These comments come off the back of her announcement earlier this week of her plans to reform Britain's asylum system.
During her announcement in Parliament, she said: “Unlike the honourable gentleman, unfortunately, I am the one who is regularly called a ‘f****** P***’ and told to ‘go back home’.
“I know through personal experience and through the experience of my constituents just how divisive the issue of asylum has become in our country.”
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