- Reference: 2020/4056
- Question by: Peter Whittle
- Meeting date: 19 November 2020
On 9 October 2020, the Daily Telegraph reported: ‘Darren Grimes is being investigated by police on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred over an interview with the historian David Starkey that he published, it has emerged. Mr Grimes, a conservative commentator, has been asked to attend a police station to be interviewed under caution after publishing a podcast in which Dr Starkey said slavery was not genocide because there are ‘so many damn blacks.’ It has been warned that the investigation, by the Metropolitan Police, will have a ‘chilling effect’ on free speech, while Mr Grimes has described it as...