Ratcliffe has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons over the past week or so. The United co-owner provoked criticism when he said the United Kingdom had been "colonised by immigrants" and gave flagrantly wrong population statistics during an interview with Sky News.
He said: "You can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in. I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money.
"The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people."
Ratcliffe later said sorry "that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe" and then doubled down on his previous remarks in the same statement.
The likes of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and anti-racism organisation Kick It Out were among the individuals and groups who called for Ratcliffe to apologise. Starmer himself said: "Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country. Jim Ratcliffe should apologise."