Donald Trump tore down the DEI regime. Britain must do the same or watch more innocents die

Keir Starmer takes furious swipe at Nigel Farage over Henry Nowak response

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Lee Cohen

By Lee Cohen


Published: 03/06/2026

- 16:31

The US has emerged stronger and safer without DEI programmes, writes the US columnist

When a boy is disbelieved and left to die because he is white, it is clear DEI madness is destroying Britain. Donald Trump has conquered this shameful ideology in the United States. It can be done in Britain. It must be.

We all know the horror that transpired by now. Henry Nowak, 18, lay bleeding from multiple stab wounds on a Southampton street. Police officers arrived, handcuffed the victim and ignored his repeated pleas for medical help. They accepted the word of the killer who had just attacked him with a ceremonial Sikh sword and who claimed racial harassment. The boy died in custody. Bodycam footage records the sequence in full. Officers, steeped in DEI priorities, appear to have prioritised shielding themselves from a racism complaint over aiding a dying member of the public.


This is institutional failure, plain and simple.

Law enforcement, like other British institutions, now operates inside a racial hierarchy that prioritises diversity. The state funnels money into diversity targets and bias workshops while basic protective duties slide. Senior officers and chief constables have absorbed the lesson that a complaint from the approved side ends careers faster than street crime.

Successive Governments have supported this system with hate laws and speech codes. Keir Starmer is still in denial: “There is no such thing as two-tier policing.”

Public safety has become subordinate to the demands of the race lobby, imposing its will on everything from the NHS to schools and universities. Mainstream media reports each fresh tragedy as though it were an isolated incident rather than the direct consequence of policy. None of these institutions has shown the slightest interest in reversing the framework that produced Henry Nowak’s death. Britain will continue its downward spiral until they do.

Across the sea, Donald Trump confronted a similar doctrine in America and defeated it. On his first full day in office in January 2025, he issued executive orders that closed every federal DEI programme and preference. Diversity offices were shut. Equity mandates were scrapped. Funds were redirected to front-line law enforcement. Biden-era lawsuits against police departments over hiring standards were dropped. Merit replaced quotas. Political correctness was removed from training.

The results appeared within months. In 2025, the United States recorded one of the largest single-year drops in the murder rate in its history. Violent crime fell sharply across major cities. Homicides, robberies, assaults and traffic fatalities all declined. Cities that received renewed federal backing for standard policing improved fastest. The figures come from the FBI and the Major Cities Chiefs Association.

Donald Trump and Henry Nowak

On his first full day in office in January 2025, Donald Trump issued executive orders that closed every federal DEI programme in the US

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America did not collapse. On the contrary, it has emerged stronger and safer. Police forces recruit based on competence. Training has returned to tactics and law. The diversity consultants who once held lucrative contracts simply lost them.

Britain has a proven blueprint to address its misguided trajectory. Will Starmer’s Government cling to the policies that left Henry Nowak bleeding on the pavement? Will Whitehall continue to impose race-preference hiring on emergency services? Will Chief Constables remain more attentive to activist complaints than to public safety? If not, the same institutions that failed to protect one white teenager will fail the next.

The contrast with Trump’s America is unmistakable. One leader identified the threat, acted decisively and delivered meaningful results for its citizens and institutions. For now, the other preserves the ideology even when bodycam evidence leaves no room for doubt.

Treating the cancer requires the political will Trump has exercised. Close the DEI offices inside policing and the civil service. End race-preference recruitment in law enforcement and emergency roles. Redirect every pound spent on seminars to front-line training and equipment. Hold officers to one standard: protect life and enforce the law without regard to the racial optics of the moment. Britain should adopt what has already succeeded across the ocean.

The establishment will scream “racist,” “crude,” and “regressive”. They issued the exact same hysterical warnings in America when Trump tore down the DEI regime. The American crime statistics have proved them utterly wrong. Britain has already paid a heavy price in blood for clinging to this failed ideology. How many more innocents must die before leaders admit the truth?

The policy that killed Henry Nowak can be ended — because it has been ended in the United States. Trump showed it is possible. Now it must be ended in Britain, before the next innocent victim is left bleeding on the pavement while officers worry more about racism complaints than saving a life