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Defiance on Channel 4 review: shocking but necessary viewing about how British Asians stood up to the far right

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If you told an Asian migrant in 1980 that a British-born Indian would one day occupy the UK’s top job, they would think you were stark raving bonkers. Because at the time Rishi Sunak was born, Asian immigrants were fighting for their right to exist elsewhere in the country. 

Their battle against the far right is the focus of Channel 4’s new three-part Defiance, produced by actor, musician and activist . Spanning five years from 1976 to 1981, and

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