Trust all is well with you. What an incredible month and a week it has been for you — appointed Chancellor on 7 September 2022, unveiling your mini budget on 23 September 2022, seeing the financial markets crash immediately and then getting your P45 on 14 October 2022. You must feel humiliated in getting the sack less than 24 hours after going on air to say, _I'm not going anywhere._
When you were appointed Britain's first black Chancellor of the Exchequer, very few black people rejoiced at your milestone. Likewise, when you were sacked from your post 38 days later, very few black people wept at your misery. Undoubtedly, you were the smartest guy in the room; your razor-sharp intellect honed at Eton, Harvard and Cambridge contributed to your meteoric rise within the Conservative party.
Then they came for the welfare recipients, and I did not speak out—because I once worked in the City. Then they came for the students, and I did not speak out—because I was a privately educated, single, 40-something black man.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.