Former shadow cabinet minister says world heavyweight champion is sexist and homophobic and shouldn’t be a role modelLabour’s Chuka Umunna has called for the BBC to drop the nomination of boxer Tyson Fury for Sports Personality of the Year,saying he believed there would not be similar tolerance of a candidate whether they were racist, rather than sexist or homophobic.
The WBA and WBO world heavyweight champion has faced calls to be dropped from the award nominations list, and the winner of which is decided by public vote,following remarks which compared homosexuality to paedophilia, as well as saying a woman’s place was in the kitchen or “on her back”.
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Source: theguardian.com