Posted 3/22/2024, 7:24:57 PM
Backlash over Nike's rainbow England kit design
- Britons outraged over Nike's new England kit changing the St George's cross to rainbow colors, MPs from Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, and Reform UK condemn it
- PM Sunak says "don't mess with our flags", prefers original, flags shouldn't be changed
- Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer calls new kit "pointless and unnecessary"
- Nike statement defends new kit as "playful update to unite and inspire"
- MP Lee Anderson slams it as "pearl-clutching woke nonsense", voters pile on outrage over changing England's heritage