Black British MP is racially assumed to be a cleaner
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An MP has revealed she was the subject of racism in parliament when a fellow MP mistook her for a cleaner.
Appearing on BBC Five Live’s Piennar’s Politics, Dawn Butler was asked if she’d ever been faced with racism in parliament.
The Labour MP for Brent Central recollected a confrontation which occurred in a Members’ only lift inside the Palace of Westminster.
“Yes - God, there are so many incidents," she said. "There was a time when I was in the lift. It was a Members’ lift that Members of Parliament use specially in cases (where) we have get to places quickly. “I was in the lift and some other MP said, ‘This lift really isn’t for cleaners’.”
The 46-year-old East London born politician chose not to disclose the name of the MP
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