Eddie Rama is a 6ft 6in former professional basketball player and practicing artist whose colorful works have been exhibited in some of the world’s top galleries. But he’s still a politician in his own right. Confronted with the Home Secretary’s recent controversial claim that Albanian asylum seekers are part of an “invasion” of Britain and that some of them are actually criminals, he deftly turned and blamed British government policies. Rama at an exhibition of his paintings in Rostock, Germany, in 2019. Kristaq’s father was a sculptor ALAMY “There is a clear understanding among migrants that the UK is suffering from Brexit and needs to fill tough jobs that British children don’t want to do in factories and agriculture,” he said. Rama and his countrymen are furious with Suella Braverman’s ‘despicable’
