Dave used his performance at the 2020 Brit awards to take aim at the prime minister, calling Boris Johnson ‘a real racist’, and also hitting out at the government regarding Grenfell and the Windrush scandal – adding that there should be ‘reparations for the time our people spent on plantations’.
The rapper, who picked up the prize for best British album, also paid tribute to Jack Merritt, a victim of the London Bridge terror attack, and spoke about the media’s treatment of Meghan Markle and deforestation.