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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday (June 28) that he was hurt and angry that a supporter of Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party had been recorded making a racial slur about him, saying it was too important for him not to speak out.

Sunak, Britain's first ethnic-minority prime minister, was responding to comments broadcast by Channel 4 News, by a man named as Andrew Parker calling Sunak a "fucking Paki" - a British racial slur for people of South Asian descent.

Sunak was born in the southern English port city of Southampton in 1980 to Hindu parents of Punjabi Indian descent.

Farage said in a statement late on Thursday (June 27) , when the comments were first broadcast, that he was dismayed by the language. On Friday he said on Twitter: "We now learn that he is an actor by profession.