{"id":317418,"date":"2026-02-12T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sir-jim-ratcliffe-says-sorry-to-some-for-colonised-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:00:24","slug":"sir-jim-ratcliffe-says-sorry-to-some-for-colonised-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sir-jim-ratcliffe-says-sorry-to-some-for-colonised-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Jim Ratcliffe Says Sorry (To Some) For &#8216;Colonised&#8217; Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hJLI6XwDQ3A\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Jim Ratcliffe Says Sorry (To Some) For 'Colonised' Comments\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJLI6XwDQ3A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Billionaire and Manchester United co-owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has apologised to those who were offended by his comment that \u201cthe UK has been colonised by immigrants\u201d. He said this to a journalist at a business summit in Belgium earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer, who condemned Sir Jim\u2019s comments has said that he was right to apologise for causing offence. While the businessman was also criticised by Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, and other opposition parties and footballing groups, Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, has defended him saying \u2018Labour may try to ignore [immigration] but Reform won&#8217;t.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>James and Alex are joined by chief football news reporter, reporter Simon Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Plus the BBC\u2019s climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, joins James and Alex to explain the data that says China\u2019s CO2 emissions have been falling for the past year and what it tells us about the trends for global emissions.<\/p>\n<p>00:00: What has happened with Sir Jim Ratcliffe today?<\/p>\n<p>03:03: Sir Jim Ratcliffe making the comment<\/p>\n<p>03:38: Newcast fact checks Sir Jim Ratcliffe&#8217;s immigration statistics against those from the Office of National Statistics<\/p>\n<p>09:25: Nigel Farage post a video of support for Sir Jim Ratcliffe<\/p>\n<p>18:37: Global climate analysis<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire and Manchester United co-owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has apologised to those who were offended by his comment that \u201cthe UK has been colonised by immigrants\u201d. He said this to a journalist at a business summit in Belgium earlier this week. Sir Keir Starmer, who condemned Sir Jim\u2019s comments has said that he was right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128810],"tags":[130418,129200,129367],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-317418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc-news","tag-billionaire","tag-manchester","tag-united"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sir Jim Ratcliffe Says Sorry (To Some) For &#039;Colonised&#039; Comments | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Sir Jim Ratcliffe Says Sorry (To Some) For &#039;Colonised&#039; Comments for free, here on News ISC. 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