{"id":423087,"date":"2026-02-13T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423087\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:51:08","slug":"manchester-united-co-owner-sir-jim-ratcliffe-partially-apologises-after-immigrant-slur-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423087\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe partially apologises after immigrant slur sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London | Manchester United co-owner and one of Britain\u2019s richest people, Jim Ratcliffe, has delivered a partial apology after saying the United Kingdom had been \u201ccolonised\u201d by immigrants, as soccer chiefs weigh whether to punish him for bringing the game into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire\u2019s incendiary remarks ignited a political firestorm over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/europe\/labour-gets-tough-on-immigration-to-stop-farage-becoming-pm-20251117-p5nftu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hottest of hot-button issues<\/a> in British politics, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer describing them as \u201coffensive and wrong\u201d and demanding an apology.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London | Manchester United co-owner and one of Britain\u2019s richest people, Jim Ratcliffe, has delivered a partial apology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-423087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}