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Labour leader Keir Starmer during the BBC Head-to-head debate with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Nottingham, June 26, 2024
A NEW racism row rocked Labour today after blundering party leader Sir Keir Starmer offended the British Bangladeshi community.
The deputy leader of the Labour group on Tower Hamlets council in East London quit the party in outrage at Sir Keir’s remarks to The Sun that “people coming from countries like Bangladesh are not being removed because they’re not being processed.”
Resigning, Sabina Akhtar said: “I was the first female speaker of the council from Bangladeshi origin, and I was a proud Labour Party member, but I cannot be proud anymore when the leader of the party singles out my community and insults my Bangladeshi identity.
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