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Whatever the voters’ reasons, forcing incarcerated individuals to do work against their will is immoral and does no one any good — neither prisoners nor those in the outside world to which most will return.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said by focusing on Mr Kaba’s ethnicity, they had created "rumour and innuendo” which could “embolden those who work against the public".

The 48-year-old has also had two spells as assistant manager with the Netherlands, but will his relative managerial inexperience and his involvement in the current regime work against him for a long-term role as United boss?

For some years now, he has held a touring conspiracy-theory spectacle called “ReAwaken America,” in which he pushes QAnon-friendly ideas—often about “globalists” scheming to stop Trump’s work against the deep state—alongside other far-right celebrities and influencers.

“Because if you try to work against them, it will not go well.”