WATCH | Trevor Noah on critics of new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah told his audience people need to ask themselves why they are afraid of power shifting to another race or gender.

This was in response to critics of newly elected British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Sunak took over from Liz Truss who resigned last week under a cloud of controversy.

The 42-year-old is Britain's first prime minister of colour.

In his Between The Scenes commentary during the taping of the show, Trevor asked what the naysayers were afraid of.

“What are you afraid of? Like all of them. You see people in the UK, you see people like Tucker Carlson all the time saying, 'You know what they are trying to do, they are not going to stop until black women and children are in positions of power.' So what?

“So why are you so afraid and I think it's because the quiet part that a lot of people don't realise they are saying is, 'We don't want these people who were previously oppressed to get into power because then they may do to us what we did to them', which, ironically, is not true,” Trevor said.

“Go to all these colonies around the world, go to all these places that were British ruled ... go to South Africa, wherever it is, unless people are being delusional, people aren't turning on anybody.”

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