Meghan's claim that Archie didn't get a title because of his skin colour is total BS

MERCY MUROKI smiles as she recalls how her first school in Kenya had no electricity and a pit latrine for a toilet.

But now, after arriving on these shores aged five, becoming homeless and giving birth as a single mum, the 25-year-old is close to completing her masters degree at Oxford.

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And as one of the country’s leading young intellectual voices, she has also joined Britain’s biggest newspaper — The Sun.

Expect Mercy to pull no punches in her interviews and opinion pieces for this newspaper.

She is a proud Conservative who has no truck with ultra wokeism and loathes cancel culture.

And she has little sympathy for Harry and Meghan’s complaints either. “I’ve never felt like I’m a victim,” she tells me.

“And so when I’ve seen that narrative being imposed on me because I’m a certain colour or because I’m a woman, I just don’t agree.

“What has annoyed me recently is well-meaning white liberals having a condescending attitude because they think I’m oppressed and I’m saying, ‘No, I’m not’.

“I just don’t subscribe to woke, academic culture.”

She goes on to insist that the idea royal baby Archie did not get a title because of his skin colour is “absolute BS”.

‘I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A TEACHER'S PET’

“There are constitutional reasons he was not made a prince,” she says.

“Perhaps there was a discussion along the lines of what skin tone the baby would have, people have these discussions all the time in mixed ethnicity households.

“If it was a racist comment then say who it was, tell the Palace and have them investigate it.

“I think the real reason people haven’t taken kindly to Meghan is because she’s a woke, liberal American with this Los Angeles lingo.

“The things the Sussexes say sometimes are fully cringe. I listened to their podcast and it made me feel nauseous.”

Outspoken and eloquent, Mercy has walked it like she talks it.

She backs Universal Credit because she and six-year-old daughter Rosalind had to survive on it when she was at university.

But she does not believe in taxing the rich off the face of the earth.

And she proudly voted for Brexit, saying: “I decided it was a chance to shape our country.

“I have no social or cultural affinity with the EU whatsoever. Ideologically, I think the nation state should be supreme.”

I think the real reason people haven’t taken kindly to Meghan is because she’s a woke, liberal American.

Can-do Mercy believes her aspirational story shows what Britain can be for people of any background.

Born in Kenyan capital Nairobi in 1995, she says she loved Britain from the off after she, mum Naomi, a care worker, and sister Mary followed her dad here for a new life.

She says: “I was so excited because where I came from was really deprived.” The family moved first to Hounslow, West London, then to Northampton, but her parents soon split.

Mercy says: “My mum left my dad because of his behaviour and we became homeless, staying with friends and family.

“It was a lot of moving around and she didn’t have her own income.

“I remember having a very chaotic childhood but I was really academic and loved school. I’ve always been a teacher’s pet. From a young age I wanted to become a journalist.

“We didn’t have a TV when I was back in Kenya but when we came to Britain all my mum ever had on was the news.”

At her state school, Mercy faced name-calling because of her race.

She says: “It’s funny, because when people ask me about racism I can think about a couple of instances from white people but there’s also this thing called colourism.

“If you were a ‘darker skin’ you would be teased a lot but by other black kids. It’s almost ironic that the main form of racism I’ve experienced is from other black people.”

After leaving school, Mercy, a member of Downing Street’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, had a “wild” couple of years at college.

She says: “It was a good mix of partying and making sure I was studying for my A levels in politics, English language and history.

“Then, when I was 18, I got pregnant. At first I thought I had messed my life up. I had a dream of pursuing a degree in political journalism and I thought that dream was over.

“I also broke up with my boyfriend because he didn’t want me to keep the baby.

“Then I moved to London to go to university. I wasn’t sure how I would cope on my own with a little baby in tow.

“But actually, that’s where everything kind of came together.”

Winning a place at Queen Mary University of London to study politics, she moved to East London with seven-month-old Rosalind.

They survived on Universal Credit, which she describes as a “lifeline”. She adds: “The experience wasn’t for the faint-hearted.

“I didn’t have family around and the thing about babies is they don’t like to sleep through the night.

“The first year was very tiring because she would wake up three times a night and I had to get up, take her to nursery, then go to my lectures and study in the library.

“There is a stigma attached to being a single parent and I felt I almost had to overcompensate.

“I didn’t want people to feel sorry for me so a lot of the time I didn’t tell people.

“I worked very, very hard to prove that I could do it. And my grades kept going up and up.”

She completed her degree with a first last year and won a place at Jesus College, Oxford, to read a masters in social policy. But her Conservative values have sometimes seen her at odds with others in academia.

She reveals: “I didn’t fit in at first, not because of my background but because of my views.

“I joined the Conservative Party aged 16. I never had a moment where I thought I was anything else.

‘IF YOU WORK HARD YOU SHOULD GET REWARDED’

“I remember during one of my first lessons at Queen Mary University I happened to mention to a tutor that I was a Conservative and the reaction was, ‘Oh don’t worry, we’ll fix that’.

“He didn’t! I believe that in this country, if you really, really want something you can go out there and achieve it. I have always thought if you work hard you should get rewarded for that. I won’t compromise on that principle.”

Mercy, who introduced former Chancellor Sajid Javid at the 2019 Conservative Party Conference, believes the culture wars afflicting Britain are “just fluff”.

She says: “The people who speak the loudest about racial issues are completely missing the point because they want to talk about statues and decolonising the curriculum.

“I don’t see how that’s going to help poor black kids in Tottenham who are at risk of being stabbed in the street, who live in single-parent households with a mum who can’t ever afford to buy a house.”

Mercy does agree there is such a thing as “white privilege” but adds: “It’s not the privilege that trumps all privilege.

"If you don’t have a degree at the moment you are basically screwed. And who is least likely to have that privilege? White, working-class boys.

“There’s the privilege of a wealthy parent, there’s the privilege of being attractive.”

Mercy, who backs The Sun’s Jabs Army campaign, is dismayed by the news EU countries are halting the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot fears.

She says: “I don’t know what data they’re using or what games they’re playing but I’m so grateful we’re out of their club.

“They can’t get that vaccine in me quick enough. I can’t wait to get back to some sort of normality.”

It is clear Mercy’s heart lies with modern Britain — and she will speak up on what she believes right here in The Sun.

• Check out Mercy’s video series Society Uncensored at thesun.co.uk/societyuncensored

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