A TORY MP has said that people who use the term "white privilege" should be reported to the Home Office as extremists, a leaked recording has revealed.
Jonathan Gullis, the Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, told a Conservative event that the term is "racist" and people who use it are extremists.
White privilege is the idea that people who are white benefit over non-white people with societal advantages.
During a question session at a fringe event of the Tory party conference, Gullis told the invited audience that people who use the term should be reported to the UK Government's Prevent programme, which is meant to track down potential terrorists.
The audio of the Stoke MP's remarks was shared with The Independent newspaper and he has been urged to withdraw them by a Labour MP.
He said: "The term white privilege - very quickly - is an extremist term, it should be reported to Prevent because it is an extremist ideology. It's racist to actually suggest that everyone who's white somehow is riddled with privilege."
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The Home Office's Prevent programme was set up to counter violent extremism and to stop people from sympathising with terrorism.
The late-night event that Gullis - a former school teacher - was speaking at was set up by the Conservative Friends of Education group.
At the fringe event, Gullis suggested that teachers using the term in the classroom should face "a disciplinary hearing at the very least".
Gullis continued: "The other way we can stop the cancel culture is by actually saying to the woke left lecturers and the woke left teachers - who seem to becoming more and more apparent – is that ultimately, what’s going to happen if you are going to push your ideology in the classroom there are going to be consequences for you.”
He added: "For some reason, if a Labour Party member wants to stand up in front of the classroom and say how bad and evil the Tories are, then the headteacher has to take some kind of sympathetic view to that. It’s absolutely disgusting, we need to start sacking people who are pushing their political ideology."
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Labour MP Dawn Butler (above) told the Independent that the "ignorance" shown from Gullis, who until recently was a member of Westminster's Education Select Committee, was "as shocking as it is dangerous".
She continued: "To insist that anyone using the term white privilege should be referred to the counter-terrorism Prevent course is not only bizarre, it is dangerously authoritarian and from a dystopian philosophy.
"Jonathan Gullis must withdraw his comments immediately and apologise for his insensitive and frankly offensive remarks."
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