The actor Laurence Fox has said that he “spoke truth to nonsense” after a race row with a BBC Question Time audience member who accused him of being “a white privileged male”. The star of the ITV police drama Lewis, who attended Harrow School before enrolling at Rada, became embroiled in an on-air spat with Rachel Boyle during Thursday night’s episode after she suggested that the Duchess of Sussex had been driven out of the UK by racism. Ms Boyle, a lecturer in race ethnicity at Edge Hill University on Merseyside, clashed with Mr Fox, 41, during a discussion about Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to step back from their duties as senior royals. She said: “Let’s be really clear about what this is,…

Source: The Times January 17, 2020 12:00 UTC