British historian David Starkey made an appearance on a pre-Coronation broadcast on GB News Thursday, where he claimed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was not sufficiently “grounded” in British culture.…
The disgraced historian made the claim after host Andrew Pierce appeared to suggest that Coronation efforts from the British government have been muted.
“The prime minister now has been, in my mind, detached or at least semi-detached, from this Coronation,” Pierce said.In response, Starkey said: “I think one of the reasons that I think a lot has gone wrong, for example, why parliament has not been properly represented at the coronation of a parliamentary monarchy, is because the government isn’t interested in the constitution.”
Starkey continued to say that what he was claiming was a “difficult and controversial” topic, but he believes it is true, after adding: “The prime minister, the man of immense power, of extraordinary skill, but really, not fully grounded in our culture.” GB News deleted a video clip of Starkey’s comments shortly after posting on Twitter. The clip, however, was later reshared by multiple accounts that questioned Starkey’s remarks.
“David Starkey says the PM is ‘not fully grounded in our culture’. I wonder what he means?” one account wrote alongside the clip.*Rhetorical
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