Now, I want to make it very clear that I am showing no political bias here, so I'm going to quote both of the main party leaders!
Jeremy Corbyn used the phrase "different to" 
Theresa May referred to "me and my friends" 
icon used as I understand that this may be becoming more acceptable.
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or, as a nice young man said to me on the phone today 'now, let's try and sort this out for yourself'
however, he was not from any political party 
Apologies for the misspell.
The context was her "contempt for Brexit voters, constantly implying the Leave vote was driven by prejudice. ‘The people that complain about the freedom of movement will not be satisfied because what they really want is to see less foreign-looking people on their streets’, she said last year."
Quote from Laura Firsht.
However, I don't think context has anything to do with whether grammar is correct. You simply can't say "less people" and be grammatically correct. People are countable so it should be fewer people. It's a very common mistake nowadays. I think a lot of people are simply unaware of the difference between less and fewer. Less is for amounts of things, like sand or paint. Fewer is for things that can be counted.
You can't have an 'amount' of people, not even in a mass grave when they're all piled up. It's still a number of people.
Since you asked 
Context was everything - I know about less and fewer of course but I'd read your example as someone being less foreign looking - you can see why I don't usually stray into Pedants' Corner
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