The club released a statement emphasising the club's inclusiveness and diversity on a day during which politicians continued to criticise Sir Jim Ratcliffe for his comments.
The founder of the INEOS chemicals group, who is also one of the club's owners, today said he was "sorry" for his words, after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer last night called on him to apologise.
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The club's statement didn't refer directly to Sir Jim's words, or the prime minister's criticism, but said: "Manchester United prides itself on being an inclusive and welcoming club.
"Our diverse group of players, staff and global community of supporters, reflect the history and heritage of Manchester; a city that anyone can call home.
"Since launching All Red All Equal in 2016, we have embedded equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do.
"We remain deeply committed to the principles and spirit of that campaign. They are reflected in our policies but also in our culture and are reinforced by our holding of the Premier League's Advanced Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Standard.
"We will continue to represent our people, our city and our fans with purpose and pride."
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Manchester United went on to say that over the current Premier League season, the club have "participated in events and initiatives at our men's and women's games marking mental health, LGBTQ+ inclusion, No Room for Racism, violence against women and girls and homophobic chanting".
"We have also celebrated our supporters' clubs' events, including our Disabled Supporters' Assocation's Christmas Party and our Jewish Supporters' Club's Chanukah event," the statement added.
"In the weeks and months ahead, we will be supporting further initiatives in these areas."
Speaking to Sky News presenter Matt Barbet, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said that while Sir Jim apologised for his use of the word colonising, he was "correct" to make his statement.
He said: "Let's work out what's non-controversial. What's non-controversial is an explosion in the population without the financial compensation to make people's lives better."
When asked if the word colonisation is controversial, Mr Farage said: "I think it's probably in the dictionary definition, correct.
"But perhaps people aren't quite ready for it."
It comes as the Football Association's chief executive confirmed the governing body is looking into Sir Jim's comments to see if he has breached any rules.
Speaking at the UEFA Congress in Brussels, Mark Bullingham said: "I can't comment too much on that. Obviously, it's a matter that our legal and regulation team are working to.
"If it goes into a process then I can't pass comment."
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If the FA were to launch a formal investigation, it would be focused on Rule E3.1, with breaches usually leading to a fine.
The rule states: "A participant shall at all times act in the best interests of the game and shall not act in any manner which is improper or brings the game into disrepute or use anyone, or a combination of, violent conduct, serious foul play, threatening, abusive, indecent or insulting words or behaviour."
His "abhorrent" offending stretches back two decades, first at a Finchley primary school and then at the Bright Horizons nursery in north London where he worked for seven years.
Chan pleaded guilty to 56 sexual offices - including more than 30 against children - and is one of the UK's worst known sex offenders.
Judge John Dodd KC said his offending was "utterly wicked, perverse, and depraved" and the huge number of images he possessed showed a "deep-seated sexual obsession" with children.
Speaking at sentencing at Wood Green Crown Court, where some parents watched in tears, he said: "Every right thinking person hearing about your offending would feel revulsion and disbelief.
"You became a sexual predator and someone who clearly lost all sense of moral compass."
One thousand two hundred families have been alerted by the police and told their children may have been in contact with Chan - either at the school or the nursery.
However, just four families have been told with certainty that Chan, 45, abused their child.
At the Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead, Chan used iPads issued to staff to film himself abusing children.
Sometimes he would target them during their naptime. His youngest known victim was six months old.
At least 26,000 indecent images of children were found on his devices, with pictures of victims from the nursey arranged into folders under their name.
The judge said 280 videos and 1,204 of the images were in the most serious 'category A' classification as they depicted penetrative sex.
Chan also confessed to sexually assaulting a woman as she slept and filming up the skirts of girls in a classroom.
DS Lewis Basford, from the Met Police, described Chan as a "callous and abhorrent individual who needed to be weeded out of society".
He said: "Whilst we've been able to speak to a number of families and provide them with clarity of what happened, I still walk away with the unknown, and being unable to actually speak to all families and provide the clarity that their child was not subject to harm during Vincent Chan's care."
DS Basford added: "All of those families that have had children go through that nursery setting or go through the primary school will be asking themselves the question, was my child a victim?"
The question haunts so many of the families involved, some are now campaigning for wide-ranging changes to make UK nurseries safer.
Despite pleading guilty, Chan has not explained his motivation to the police - who believe he was acting alone and not sharing the images with others.
The 56 charges he admitted were: Five counts of sexual assault by penetration; four of sexual assault by touching; one charge of sexual assault on a female; 23 counts of taking indecent images of children, six charges of making indecent images of children; six counts of outraging public decency; 11 charges of voyeurism.
'Parents' complaints missed'
One girl's family, who we can't name, want the local authority to take further legal action against the Bright Horizons nursery chain.
The mother said: "They had a whistleblowing policy, but no one whistleblew for seven years.
"Complaints from parents were missed… the digital device security didn't work. I think there were so many missed opportunities."
Chan was stopped in June 2024 when a complaint was made about him using nursery iPads to create videos of children in distress with music set to them.
Once police were alerted, officers recovered inappropriate images stored across 69 different electronic devices belonging to Chan.
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Alison Millar, from the law firm Leigh Day, is representing many of the families and told Sky News his crimes were "unimaginable".
She said many parents had felt "dismissed" and "ignored" when they raised concerns about Chan, who worked at the nursery between 2017 and 2024.
"Parents said I've overheard this man shouting and berating young children," said Ms Millar.
"They were just told, 'oh well, that's Vincent, he just has a loud voice.'"
A local child safeguarding review has been set up but families want further accountability, as well as improvements to vetting of staff, monitoring in nurseries and stronger whistleblowing channels.
Bright Horizons is one of the UK's biggest nursery chains with over 300 centres across the country - the nursery on Finchley Road has since closed.
'Depraved and devious'
In a statement, Bright Horizons said: "Keeping children safe is our most important responsibility. Vincent Chan broke that trust.
"His actions were depraved and devious and go against the kindness and care our dedicated professionals provide to children each day."
It said it's now "increasing awareness of the ways staff can escalate concerns so that they do so quickly and confidentially" and has brought forward safeguarding audits and refresher training for staff.
A review of its systems by an external expert has also been launched.
Helen Reddy, specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Whether it was at the school, the nursery, inside his home or nearby, Vincent Chan was and is a serious danger to women and girls.
"He is a prolific sexual predator, and this sentence will ensure he cannot harm anyone.
"The evidence against him was overwhelming and I'm very relieved he admitted his guilt, so victims and their families didn't have to sit through a trial."
It's on the front of their daughter's nursery school folder.
It should be a catalogue of happy memories of their little girl's early years.
But her "key person" at the nursery, the carer they trusted, was serial sex offender Vincent Chan.
"He wrote the words for a large chunk of what is inside (the folder)," the girl's mother said.
"It just demonstrates how much is tainted by what he's done."
Chan was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years.
He pleaded guilty to 56 sexual offences - including more than 30 against children - and is one of the UK's worst sex offenders. He abused the trust placed in him both in a pre-school nursery and, before that, at a primary school.
One thousand two hundred families have been alerted by the police and told that their children may have been in contact with the serial offender at either the school or the nursery.
Bright Horizons said in a statement that Chan's actions "were depraved and devious", and that his offences "came to light because a staff member raised concerns and followed our internal escalation procedures".
We cannot identify the parents who have spoken to Sky News, but they wanted to address the safeguarding failures that they say must lead to widespread change across nurseries all over the country.
Their daughter was a year old when she started at the Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north London.
"She was there till she started school," her mother said.
"We specifically chose a Bright Horizons nursery because we believed that it was an organisation that would educate our daughter, provide her with enriching opportunities, as well as being a childcare function.
"He was an art teacher, so he would do lots of kind of artistic activities with our children.
"I never got the impression she was kind of scared of him or really disliked him.
"He (Chan) was responsible for every element of her care when he was there - settling her to sleep during nap time, her intimate care and going to the toilet and meal times.
"Comforting her when she was upset…knowing that those moments of vulnerability for her were looked over by this kind of predator.
"I feel like the innocence of her childhood is stolen."
They had no idea about Chan's offending until the Met Police visited them last October.
Her father described the "complete shock" they felt learning their daughter was part of the investigation into depraved sexual abuse at the nursery.
The mother said: "They told us that her teacher, Vincent Chan, had at that point been arrested for allegations of child sex abuse.
"On his devices, they found a whole lot of images of our daughter, which were described to us as being very disturbing in nature, taken over an extended period of time.
"As a result, they considered her to be extremely high risk of also having been sexually abused."
Police officers have been unable to say definitively whether their daughter was or was not abused by Chan - a position so many other parents find themselves in.
"It kind of feels like psychologically corrosive to continually go through the worst-case scenario. I feel completely let down," her exasperated mother said.
"The fact that an existing offender was hired, with rooms full of pre-verbal children who were just literally sitting ducks behind closed doors with a sexual predator."
The girl's father asked: "What danger was our child exposed to? And whose fault was it, beyond just an individual?
"Who else is responsible for the failings that allowed those acts to be carried out? It's a real sense of despair.
"For us making a decision that millions of parents make every day, right? To leave their children in the care of others.
"Some of us go to the extra step of doing it in the care of these professional organisations who have, on the surface, checks and balances and regulations to comply with, but this individual was so easily able to manipulate that system."
Solicitors acting for scores of families confirmed to Sky News that some families had raised concerns about Vincent Chan's behaviour at the nursery and allege that those complaints were not dealt with appropriately.
Many of the families affected are demanding further accountability and changes within nurseries.
"I consider Bright Horizons responsible alongside Vincent Chan," the girl's mother said. "I would like to see a prosecution brought by the local authority.
"From a government perspective they've just got to make the system more robust and that's inevitably going to become more expensive - they're going to have to find solutions for that but I don't think we have a choice."
Their daughter is now of primary school age.
"One day we will have an adult daughter who will have access to all of the information about this case online and she remembers the nursery she went to and will have questions for us.
"We will explain to her what the uncertainties are in relation to what happened to her and what the level of risk was that she was exposed to.
"I want to be able to tell her that I did absolutely everything possible to bring some level of justice for her," the mother added.
In a statement to Sky News, Bright Horizons said: "This is a distressing time for families and all those impacted by Vincent Chan's horrific crimes and our thoughts are first and foremost with them.
"Keeping children safe is our most important responsibility. Vincent Chan broke that trust. His actions were depraved and devious and go against the kindness and care our dedicated professionals provide to children each day.
"Chan's actions came to light because a staff member raised concerns and followed our internal escalation procedures.
"We then escalated externally to the Local Authority and Ofsted and worked with the Police throughout their investigation.
"We are increasing awareness of the ways staff can escalate concerns so that they do so quickly and confidentially. We have extensive safeguarding practices and training requirements in place designed to keep children safe.
"All our staff have to go through rigorous recruitment screening and reference checking, as well as regular training.
"We have brought forward several internal safeguarding audits and refresher trainings to ensure staff are fully aware of their obligations.
"We have also engaged an external expert to carry out a full review of our practices to make sure we meet the most robust standards of safeguarding.
"We are committed to understanding what happened so that we can learn from this terrible episode. We support the Child Safeguarding Practice Review (CSPR) and hope that it will be beneficial for families, for us as a provider and for the Early Years industry as a whole."
Tom Homan, who's leading the White House's anti-immigration campaign, said the administration had agreed to end Operation Metro Surge.
The operation saw 3,000 armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents dispatched to the state, particularly its biggest city, Minneapolis.
"As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals," Mr Homan told a press conference.
"I have proposed and President Trump has concurred that this surge operation conclude."
Last week, Mr Homan had initially announced more than 700 ICE agents would leave the state after local officials agreed to hand over arrested immigrants.
Launched on 1 December, the operation led to the arrest of more than 4,000 people, federal authorities said.
But the action has proved controversial. ICE agents, usually dressed in face masks and military-style camouflage gear, have repeatedly drawn angry demonstrations from residents.
Some protests have turned violent, with two protesters killed during confrontations.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, a mother-of-three, was shot dead in her car by an ICE agent early in January, purportedly in self-defence.
Also last month, Alex Pretti, 37, an intensive care nurse, was wrestled to the floor by federal agents and shot multiple times in Minneapolis.
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Following Mr Homan's announcement, Democratic governor Tim Walz posted his reaction on social media: "The long road to recovery starts now".
"The impact on our economy, our schools, and people's lives won't be reversed overnight. That work starts today," he added.
The deportation sweeps have been strongly opposed by Mr Walz, and other elected officials in the state.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on Instagram: "They thought they could break us, but a love for our neighbours and a resolve to endure can outlast an occupation."
But Mr Homan also pledged that immigration enforcement will not end when the Minnesota operation is over.
The chief federal judge in Minnesota has reprimanded Trump administration officials, saying ICE has defied dozens of court orders to free wrongly arrested migrants.
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In a statement, the Cabinet Office said the prime minister and the cabinet secretary have agreed Sir Chris will stand down "by mutual agreement" from today.
He replaced Simon Case in the £200,000-a-year role on 16 December 2024. His departure on Thursday makes him the shortest-serving cabinet secretary in history.
The role will now be shared by three senior civil servants until a replacement is appointed, and it leaves Sir Keir Starmer without a permanent cabinet secretary, chief of staff, or director of communications - roles that have all been vacated in less than a week.
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Sir Chris said: "It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as a civil servant for the past 35 years, and a particular distinction to lead the service as cabinet secretary.
"I want to place on record my sincere thanks to the extraordinary civil servants, public servants, ministers, and advisers I have worked with. Our country is fortunate to have such dedicated individuals devoted to public service, and I wish them every success for the future."
Sir Keir Starmer added: "I am very grateful to Sir Chris for his long and distinguished career of public service, spanning more than 35 years, and for the support that he has given me over the past year.
"I have agreed with him that he will step down as cabinet secretary today. I wish him the very best for the future."
Third No 10 departure in less than a week
The cabinet secretary is the head of the Civil Service, and is often a key adviser to the prime minister on major policy decisions and the internal workings of the government.
At the time of his appointment 14 months ago, Sir Keir said Sir Chris would be tasked with "the complete re-wiring of the British state to deliver bold and ambitious long-term reform", and there was "no one better placed" to deliver that than him.
However, there have been reports for months that the prime minister was unhappy with his performance, and his departure comes as little surprise to many in Whitehall, and comes on the heels of Morgan McSweeney leaving as Downing Street chief of staff and Tim Allan as communications director following the crisis of Sir Keir's premiership in the last week.
Reacting to Sir Chris's ousting, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said he is "the latest person Keir Starmer has thrown under the bus to save his own skin".
And Dave Penman, the leader of the FDA union that represents civil servants, called the treatment of Sir Chris a "new low for this government and its relationship with the civil service".
He highlighted that briefing against Wormald began shortly after he took office and were started to "scapegoat him and undermine his authority".
The responsibilities of the job will be shared in the interim between three senior civil servants - Catherine Little, permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, James Bowler, permanent secretary at the Treasury, and Dame Antonia Romeo, permanent secretary at the Home Office, and widely reported to be the prime minister's preferred candidate to take on the role permanently.
An appointment is expected to be made "shortly", the Cabinet Office said.