Last week, Green leader Zack Polanski took a break from Twitter doomscrolling to appear on BBC Question Time.

Talking about migrant care workers, he said: “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to wipe someone’s bum”.

His comments were dripping with snobbery - and are completely ignorant of the enormous and varied contribution that care workers make across our city and country.

It’s not the job of migrants to fill in if Zack Polanski thinks something is beneath him.

I am a proud Londoner. As the daughter of refugees, I know that migration has shaped the city we live in, and that migrants still make a fantastic contribution to modern Britain, from the arts to business, and from our health service to academia.

So, I challenged his demeaning language.

As Stratford and Bow’s Labour

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