 Nigel Farage has described Mr Parker's comments as very prejudiced and very wrong. Rishi Sunak said the racist comments about him were hurtful and made him angry and called the language used by the canvassers corrosive and divisive. A court in India has released on bail a senior opposition leader accused of money laundering. Hemant Soren, the former chief minister of eastern Jharkhand state, was detained in January, months before the general election. His party says the accusations against him were politically motivated.