Prue Leith denies Great British Bake Off is ‘anti-Brexit’ for celebrating diversity-Adam Miller-Entertainment – Metro

Prue Leith voted for Brexit in 2016 (Picture: CH4/UNPIXS)

Prue Leith has denied the Great British Bake Off is ‘anti-Brexit’ after she voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 vote.

Leith, 82, came under fire for declaring her support for Brexit, but still insisted she is ‘not a raging Tory’.

With the Great British Bake Off’s notoriously welcomed diverse casting, US publications commended the Channel 4 programme, which is actually called The Great British Baking Show across the pond.

Vulture described Bake Off as being an ‘anti-Brexit metaphor’ which brings people together, but Leith has stressed that is not the case.

‘That’s very odd that they should think that’s anti-Brexit, because not everyone is from Europe,’ she said.

‘A lot of the contestants are from Africa, from Asia, from the Middle East. I mean, I’m all for foreigners, don’t get me wrong.’

Bake Off has been celebrated for its diversity (Picture: Channel 4)

Leith has doubled down on her vote to back Boris Johnson and leave the EU (Picture: Getty)

Speaking to the New Yorker, she continued: ‘I think that painting Brexiteers as little Englanders who only want to have white conservatives do everything—that end of the Tory Party is just dreadful, and I’m not in favour of that.

‘Anyhow, we must get off all this politics, or I’ll get crucified again.’

Despite being criticised for her vote, five years after the UK left the European Union, during her 2021 episode of Desert Island Discs, she stood by her decision.

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Reflecting on the backlash to presenter Lauren Laverne, she said: ‘I haven’t actually regretted it [voting for Brexit] because I still think long-term it’s a good thing, but I voted because I thought that we ought to be making our own decisions.

‘And the only things that I have been disappointed by – and they are disappointing – is obviously I think we were not quick enough to realise just how difficult it would be to get staff.’

The Great British Bake Off airs Tuesdays at 8pm on Channel 4.

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