Sir Keir Starmer was under pressure for the suspension Dawn Butler after she shared a tweet describing Kemi Badenoch as representing “white supremacy in black face”.

The Labor MP retweeted a post by Nigerian-British author Nels Abbey, who called Ms Badenoch’s election as the new Tory leader a “victory for racism”.

Ms Butler went on to delete the retweet which offered “advice for surviving the immediate rise of Badenochism (ie white supremacy over black)”.

But the Prime Minister is facing calls to remove the Labor whip from Brent East MP.

Conservative MP en Obese-Jecty said Ms Butler was “not alone on the government benches in holding that view about Kemi”.

He said: “This will be a test to see if Keir Starmer remove the whip or effectively accept Butler’s odious approval of this smear’.

Former Tory chancellor Kawsi Kwarteng told GB News: “On a personal level I’ve always got on with her but her baiting is completely insane.

“And you can imagine that if Kemi had lost, she would have said exactly the same thing. She reportedly said “of course Kemi lost because Tories they are racist and Britain is racist… In their logic, they put everything through the lens of baiting and division.

“I really think, given what she said, she should be whipped. There should be some discipline and disciplinary action against this kind of really hateful divisiveness.”

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Nadhim Zahawi, a former Tory chancellor, shared two posts on X, calling Ms Butler’s comments “vicious” and “disgraceful”.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said she strongly disagreed with the tweet Ms Butler reposted.

Pressed on why no action had been taken against Ms Butler, she said: “As I said, I didn’t see the post and I think those kind of party issues are always for the Whip.”

Mr. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy were among other Labor figures who hailed Ms Badenoch’s election on Saturday as Britain’s first black leader of a major party as a historic moment.