London MP Dawn Butler has said she was a victim of racism when a fellow MP assumed she was a cleaner.
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/black-mp-dawn-butler-reveals-she-was-victim-of-racism-in-parliament-after-fellow-mp-assumed-she-was-a6901261.html
In a separate incident in 2008 former senior Tory minister David Heathcote-Amory confronted her in the Members’ section of the terrace.
“He actually said to me, ‘What are you doing here? This is for Members only’,” she wrote. “He then proceeded to ask me, 'Are you a member?' And I said, ‘Yes I am, are you?‘ And he turned around and said to his colleague, ‘They’re letting anybody in nowadays.’ “This man could not equate the image he saw in front of him with that of an MP. It was quite upsetting for my team and so we had to take it further.”
Mr Heathcote-Amory rebuffed the accusation that his remarks were racist.
“It’s quite absurd,” he said. “What she is actually objecting to is that I didn’t recognise her as a new MP. I simply asked her what she was doing at that end of the terrace, and they are quite sensitive about this kind of thing, they think that any kind of reprimand from anyone is racially motivated.”
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