Labour tells MP Nadia Whittome to delete Rishi Sunak tweet

Labour has ordered MP Nadia Whittome to delete a tweet saying Rishi Sunak becoming premier curate "isn't a triumph for Asian representation".

The Nottingham East MP posted aft Mr Sunak was this week confirmed by Conservative MPs arsenic the UK's archetypal British Asian premier minister.

Her tweet triggered dense disapproval and was aboriginal deleted.

A spokesperson for Labour person Sir Keir Starmer has present confirmed she was instructed to region it.

She had tweeted to accidental Mr Sunak was a multimillionaire who had, arsenic chancellor, chopped taxes connected banks portion surviving standards dropped successful the UK and added: "Black, achromatic oregon Asian: if you enactment for a living, helium is not connected your side".

Sir Keir's spokesperson stressed that Rishi Sunak becoming the archetypal British Asian premier curate was a "great thing" and thing the state "should beryllium arrogant of".

Ms Whittome told the BBC she would not apologise for the tweet and successful a connection her bureau said: "Like Rishi Sunak, Ms Whittome is second-generation British Indian.

"Ms Whittome was pointing to Rishi Sunak's grounds arsenic chancellor to show that effectual governmental practice of British Asian communities - and the interests of each moving radical - is astir acold much than the ethnicity of the premier minister.

"Following a treatment with the Labour whips, it was agreed that Ms Whittome would delete the tweet."