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Christopher McKeon

Starmer faces call to suspend Labour MP over ‘white supremacy’ tweet

Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to suspend the whip from Labour MP Dawn Butler (right) (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has come under pressure to remove the Labour whip from backbench MP Dawn Butler after she appeared to share a tweet describing Kemi Badenoch as a “member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class”.

Ms Butler swiftly deleted her retweet of a post from Nigerian-British author Nels Abbey, which responded to the prospect of Ms Badenoch becoming Tory leader by describing “Badenochism” as “white supremacy in blackface”.

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