Yvette Cooper has condemned a social media post shared by Labour MP Dawn Butler describing Kemi Badenoch as “white supremacy in black face”.The home secretary described it as “clearly appalling” amid calls for the backbencher to be stripped of the Labour whip.

Yvette Cooper condemned a retweet by a Labour MP about Kemi Badenoch as "appalling".Dawn Butler shared a post on X from Nigerian-British author Nels Abbey describing the new Tory leader as representing "white supremacy in blackface".

British-Nigerian author Nels Abbey said his original comments had been "clearly satirical" and "intended as a sketch". But some Tory politicians want Sir Keir Starmer to take action against Labour's Dawn Butler.

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to remove the party whip from a Labour MP who shared a social media post accusing Kemi Badenoch of representing ‘white supremacy in blackface’. Dawn Butler, the Brent East MP,