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		</div><p>Stormzy has said the UK is “definitely, 100%” racist, and that the situation has worsened since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.</p>
<p>The grime rapper, 26, who released his second album Heavy Is The Head earlier this month, made the comments in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.</p>
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<p>Asked whether the UK was still a racist country, he said: “Definitely, 100%. It’s like: ‘Oh no, we’re not racist’. But there’s a lot of racism in the country.</p>
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<p>The difficult thing with the UK is, as you said, in Italy it’s a clear problem, whereas trying to explain that Britain is a racist country is the most difficult thing ever.</p>
<p>“They think: ‘No, it’s not. Stormzy you’re successful. Look at London, there’s loads of black people’.</p>
<p>“It’s a more difficult case to fight.”</p>
<p>Stormzy, who backed Labour in the last election, said Mr Johnson was a “figurehead” whose comments encouraged “hate among others” in the UK.</p>
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<p>Mr Johnson has been criticised for using racially charged or offensive language, including describing the Queen being greeted in Commonwealth countries by “flag-waving piccaninnies” and then-prime minister Tony Blair being met by “tribal warriors” with “watermelon smiles” while on a trip to the Congo.</p>
<figure id="attachment_146705" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-146705" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-146705" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/BC08A2D0-964A-40F6-8E1F-B9974D6EC882.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-146705" class="wp-caption-text">Stormzy on stage at Glastonbury</figcaption></figure>
<p>Stormzy said: “If the top person can openly say this racist thing – the ‘piccaninnies’ remarks, ‘watermelon smiles’, comparing Muslim women to a letter box.</p>
<p>“If that is our figurehead, the top man, the leader we have to follow, and he openly says these things, he encourages hate among others.”</p>
<p>Stormzy, real name Michael Omari, said he was unsure whether he would accept an MBE or OBE if he was offered one.</p>
<p>He said it would be difficult to accept the honour “because of the British empire”, but that his mother would be proud if he did.</p>
<p>He said: “It’s got a very dark history. You know, Britain colonised everywhere. It’s something I’d look into and decide in case of.”</p>
<p>Stormzy has been a vocal critic of Mr Johnson.</p>
<p>His number one single Vossi Bop takes aim at the Government and Boris Johnson with the lyrics: “Rule number two, don’t make the promise / If you can’t keep the deal then just be honest / I can never die I’m Chuck Norris/ F*** the Government and f*** Boris.”</p>
<p>And earlier this week, he argued with Piers Morgan on Twitter after the Good Morning Britain host took issue with him criticising Mr Johnson to a group of children.</p>
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<p>Stormzy was talking to young pupils at his old primary school in Thornton Heath, south London, when he was asked why he was not a fan of the Prime Minister.</p>
<p>He replied that Mr Johnson was “a very very bad man”.</p>
<p>Morgan was quick to comment, writing on Twitter: “He shouldn’t have done this, and shouldn’t have been allowed to do this.”</p>
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