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“Kemi Badenoch is Nigerian … Bukayo Saka is Nigerian.”
Context
On 7 October 2026, Connor Tomlinson responded to the public debate about English identity by describing Kemi Badenoch and England footballer Bukayo Saka by their ancestral nationality. In the same post he said he was tired of his identity being given to “foreigners”.
Evidence
Primary source: Connor Tomlinson — X post, 7 October 2026
Contemporaneous reproduction: International Business Times UK, 8 October 2026
Evidence status: Public social-media post reproduced verbatim in a contemporaneous news report.
Legal status: Political commentary. No finding of unlawful conduct is asserted.
Last reviewed: 8 October 2026
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