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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Labour MP Dawn Butler in growing row for 'sharing' tweet of Kemi Badenoch as 'Blackface of white supremacy'

Sir Keir Starmer faced a growing storm over London Labour MP Dawn Butler appearing to share a tweet describing Kemi Badenoch as a “member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class”.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described as “appalling” the description of Ms Badenoch becoming Tory leader as a “Blackface of white supremacy has broken the glass ceiling for all Black people”.

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