The Reform Party’s Lee Anderson has hit out at a Labor MP after she shared a tweet describing Kemi Badenoch as representing “white supremacy in black face”.

Dawn Butler retweeted a message from Nigerian-British author Nels Abbey who called Ms Badenoch’s election as Conservative leader a “victory for racism”.

The Brent East MP then deleted the rebroadcast which offered “advice for surviving the immediate rise of badochism (i.e. white supremacy in blackface)”.

Mr Anderson referred to a letter written by Ms Butler while he was at the center of an Islamophobia row over comments made about Sadiq Khan.

The Reform MP, who represents Ashfield, wrote on X: “Remember this? You called for the whip to be removed from me following Islamophobic comments, but your government has no definition of Islamaphobia. What have you been doing lately?

Ms Butler has also been heavily criticized by conservative figures, with several calling for her to lose the Labor party whip post.

Ben Obese-Jecty, who was elected MP for Huntingdon in July, said Ms Butler was “not the only one on the government benches to share this view on Kemi”.

He said: “This will be a test to see if Keir Starmer removes the whip, or actually condones Butler’s odious endorsement of this libel. “

Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told GB News: “On a personal level I always got on well with her, but her racial attacks are completely crazy.

“And you can imagine if Kemi had lost, she would have said the exact same thing. She would have said “of course Kemi lost, because the Conservatives are racist and Britain is racist”…

“In their logic, they view everything through the prism of racial hatred and divisions.

“I honestly think that given what she said, she should have the whip removed.

“There should be some discipline and disciplinary action against this kind of really hateful division.”

But on Sunday evening, Labor showed no signs of withdrawing Ms Butler’s whip.

Other Labor figures, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy, hailed Ms Badenoch’s election as the first black leader of a major British party as a historic moment.