Moment Nish Kumar calls out Raab on TV after Deputy PM mistakes him for another 'brown man'

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This is the moment comedian Nish Kumar publicly called out Dominic Raab on TV after the Deputy Prime Minister apparently mistook him for another 'brown man' on the set of a BBC show.

Mr. Kumar said Mr Raab mistook him for Gary Marlowe, the brother of anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller, when the trio were backstage at a question time in north London in 2018.

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He has since told The Independent that he has "no confidence" in Mr Raab's ability to "tell the difference between different Asians".

Speaking on BBC 2's satirical news program The Mash Report about the alleged incident, he said: "When I walked into the green room, and it's a true story, were saying "Nice to meet you Nish!" to a man who happened to be Gina Miller's brother.

"Even though the show tweeted pictures of all of us the day before so we all knew what the other one looked like, you just ignored it and approached the first brown man you saw and assumed it was me. Even though he has no glasses or beard!"

Ms Miller described the confusion in an article for The Independent in which she also accused Mr Raab of being "aggressive and intimidating" when they were invited to BBC Radio 4's Today program to discuss Brexit in 2016.

She said Mr Raab caused confusion years later, when she appeared on the BBC panel and took her brother with him in support.

She wrote that Mr Raab arrived "and s went to my brother - a serious, bespectacled doctor with very short hair - and said, 'I'm Dominic Raab, I can't wait to be on the panel with you tonight' with that smile he's doing . I looked up from the papers I was reviewing in preparation. My brother was surprised and said, "You think I'm Nish Kumar? We're not all the same, you know?"

< p>M. Kumar said Mr Raab 'didn't even acknowledge the breach had happened'.

"What bothered me was that he had no contrition after he said. "He just went up to the first brown guy he saw, was immediately corrected but didn't even acknowledge the infraction had occurred.

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