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Inaya Folarin Iman is a British commentator and television presenter for GB News, where she hosts The Great British Breakfast and is a guest commentator on the channel. She is also the director and founder of The Equiano Project,[1] which describes itself as "a debate, discussion and ideas forum" which "focus[es] on race, culture and politics".[2]

Political views

A supporter of Britain's withdrawal from the EU and former Brexit Party candidate,[3] Iman was a member of the Free Speech Union and is a was a former project manager for Index on Censorship.[4]

Iman has criticised Black Lives Matter, seeing the movement as an "opportunistic pretext for an outpouring of self-righteous rage".[1] Following the murder of George Floyd, Iman criticised comparisons between black people's experiences in the United Kingdom and the United States.[5] Alongside Andrew Doyle, Claire Fox and others, she was co-signator of a letter in The Spectator which said that "activists, corporations and institutions seem to have seized the opportunity to exploit Floyd's death to promote an ideological agenda that threatens to undermine British race relations. ... We must oppose and expose the racial division being sown in the name of anti-racism."[6] She has also called gestures such as "taking the knee" against racism as part of a culture war.[7][8]

Writing for Spiked, she rejected the claims of BLM that Britain is a racist society, saying that in the UK, "racial equality is near achieved and so-called structural racism has been almost totally eradicated".[1][9]

She has written for The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, The Times, Spiked,[1] Standpoint,[10] BrexitCentral,[11] gal-dem[12] and the i.[3] She has featured and made appearances on Politics Live,The Big Questions, Good Morning Britain, Sky News, Moral Maze, Vox and BBC Radio 5 Live.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Sherwin, Andrew (2 March 2021). "Andrew Neil's GB News signs 'woke opponent' Inaya Folarin Iman as a presenter". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. ^ "About". The Equiano Project. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "As a Brexit Party candidate I'm disappointed some are having to stand down". inews.co.uk. 14 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Who We Are". The Free Speech Union. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Has Black Lives Matter made a difference?". The Sunday Times. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism". The Spectator. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  7. ^ Adejobi, Alicia (14 June 2021). "GB News' Inaya accuses England team of 'waging culture war on fans'". Metro. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  8. ^ Balla, Reemul (16 June 2021). "'GB News is a breath of fresh air but a few things made me cringe'". MyLondon. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  9. ^ "2020: the year racial identity took over". www.spiked-online.com. 27 December 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  10. ^ "A defence of difference". Standpoint. 10 July 2020. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  11. ^ "The compelling 'take back control' mantra must be harnessed to bring about long-term political change". BrexitCentral. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Are we doing enough to help our homelands?". gal-dem. 2 May 2019.
  13. ^ "Inaya Folarin Iman". Debating Matters. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
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