Labour MP’s ‘white supremacy’ retweet about Badenoch ‘appalling’ – Cooper

Dawn Butler swiftly deleted the post (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

The contents of a tweet a Labour MP appeared to have reposted about Kemi Badenoch are “clearly appalling”, the Home Secretary has said as Sir Keir Starmer faces pressure to remove the whip from the backbencher.

MP Dawn Butler appeared to share a tweet describing Ms Badenoch as a “member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class”.