Historian says Met probe ‘not proportionate’ and focus on Grimes is ‘grossly unfair’
The historian David Starkey is being investigated by police over remarks he made about slavery in an interview with Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes.
The Tory former chancellor Sajid Javid and the historian David Olusoga were among those who criticised Starkey after he told Grimes in July, while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement: “Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there? You know, an awful lot of them survived.”
