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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

Labour MP who threatened to smash reporter’s face with bat made trade envoy by Starmer

A Labour MP who threatened to smash a reporter’s face with a ‘f****** bat’ has been made a trade envoy by Keir Starmer.

Kate Osamor was ordered to apologise for the incident and for using House of Commons headed notepaper for a character reference in her son’s drug case in 2020.

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