Butler began by talking about how drunk she had got the night before. The London MP wants to replace Sadiq Khan as mayor…
Dawn Butler is set to announce her London mayoral campaign this Wednesday, according to PoliticsJOE’s Ava Evans. Sadiq Khan is still mulling whether to go for a fourth term…
Guido members will have seen this coming. From Guido Whispers on 10th April:
A New Dawn: Speaking of the London mayoralty, Dawn Butler was spotted hanging around near the Green Party HQ earlier this year. There is speculation she was trying to organise some sort of non-aggression pact amongst the left to run for Mayor of London. She denied that she was defecting to the Greens herself. Although a pact that clears the way on her left flank might be a different story…
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Labour MP Dawn Butler is asking colleagues to sign on to a soon-to-be-open letter calling for Sarah Pochin to be formally reprimanded by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for her complaint on TalkTV about adverts. Butler is asking friends if they would “consider signing my joint cross-party letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, regarding comments made by the Member of Parliament for Runcorn and Helsby, which I believe constitutes a breach of the Code of Conduct for Members”…
The MP, who last year shared a post describing Kemi Badenoch as “the most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class,” argues the apology is not enough and “Ms Pochin’s remarks undermine the Nolan Principles of Objectivity and Honesty, as her claim that the representation of Black and Asian people in advertising suggests that whiteness is the normative identity, while minoritised communities are outsiders or exceptions. However, Black and Asian people have lived, worked and contributed to Britain for centuries and almost 20% of the UK population are Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnicity.“ Labour wants to have the argument…
Starmer called the comments ‘racist’ yesterday. Scrapping for a fight…
Read the full letter below:
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”