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 branded 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".

Sir Keir Starmer has said a Labour MP ‘shouldn’t have said what she did’ after she shared a tweet linking Kemi Badenoch with ‘white supremacy in Blackface’ as appalling. Dawn Butler is understood to have quickly removed her retweet of the post from Nigerian-British author Nels Abbey,