By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2024-11-05 08:14:31 | Updated at 2024-11-05 10:33:55
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Sir Keir Starmer has swerved calls to suspend Dawn Butler after the Labour MP shared a social media post linking new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to “white supremacy”.
The Prime Minister, who was at Interpol’s summit in Glasgow yesterday, said: “She [Butler] shouldn’t have said what she did and she has deleted it, and quite right too.”
Following Badenoch’s victory in the 2024 Tory leadership race, Butler shared a post by Nigerian journalist Nels Abbey that offered “tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (ie white supremacy in blackface)”.
Butler, who served as Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Equalities Secretary, later deleted the post from her feed after sparking outrage on social media.
GB News host Nana Akua wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister yesterday to urge Starmer to “permanently withdraw” the whip from Butler.
Akua joined ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in putting pressure on Starmer to sack Butler.
Kwarteng, who was at the heart of another race row when Labour MP Rupa Huq described him as “superficially black”, told GB News: “On a personal level I’ve always got on with her, but her race-baiting is completely crazy.”
He added: “I genuinely think that given what she said, she should have the whip removed from her. There should be some discipline and some disciplinary measure against this kind of really hateful divisiveness.”
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Labour has come under fire over its controversial plans to "fast track" migrants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran and Syria to Britain.
Speaking to GB News, Migration Watch UK chairman Alp Mehmet pointed to Labour's earlier claims that fast-tracking would "reduce the cost of accommodating migrants" - with tens of thousands being put up at Britons' expense to the tune of £4.2million every day.
But he said processing claims more quickly "does nothing of the sort" and simply "passes the burden onto local authorities and adds strength to the already-powerful magnet" pulling asylum seekers to the UK.
