Labour MP deletes Sunak tweet

NOTTINGHAM MP Nadia Whittome (right) sparked online outrage after claiming Rishi Sunak becoming prime minister is ‘not a win for Asian representation’ as he is immensely rich.

The Labour MP said that Sunak was ‘not on your side’ as Britain’s first prime minister of Asian heritage. She also accused Sunak of overseeing a fall in UK living standards.

She also attacked Sunak and his wife for their wealth, which

she said was ‘twice the estimated wealth of King Charles III’.

British Indian Whittome on Monday (24) deleted her tweet with these comments upon instruction from the Labour party, it is learnt. “He’s a multimillionaire who, as chancellor, cut taxes on bank profits while overseeing the biggest drop in living standards since 1956. Black, white or Asian: if you work for a living, he is not on your side,” the Labour MP is reported to have said.

Zarah Sultana, another Leftwing Labour MP, called Sunak a ‘complete, utter fraud’ because he supported the government’s policy to process asylum seekers in Rwanda.

“This again shows the limitations of representation politics. Having black and brown people at the top does not mean that the lives of black and brown people in the UK and across the world will be better,” Sultana said. “In fact, they’ve gotten worse. The Tories are the party of the one per cent and will always do the bidding of the one per cent.”

Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, welcomed Sunak’s appointment and said that as “a working class girl from Manchester” it was “really important … for people to see themselves within our senior politicians”.