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Dawn Butler | Metro columnist and Labour MP for Brent East

Dawn Butler is a Metro columnist and Labour MP for Brent East

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - NOVEMBER 03: A funeral ceremony is held for Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, was killed, along with his family members, in an airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 03, 2023. Journalists attending the ceremony experienced sadness. (Photo by Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Politicians like me owe it to humanity to call for a ceasefire in Gaza on both sides

UK November 10, 2023

NHS Pay 15% Petition To Downing Street London

My loved ones see the abuse I face as a Black female MP and ask if it’s worth it

Politics October 27, 2023

Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the media outside the BBC Broadcasting House after attending the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show in London, United Kingdom on July 16, 2023. (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Labour can’t risk being boring at conference - I want Starmer to be bold

Politics October 6, 2023

Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a visit to Greater Manchester Police HQ in Manchester, as part of an announcement on police "pursuing all reasonable lines of inquiry to solve more crime". Picture date: Monday August 28, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Investigations. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

If Suella Braverman were white, she wouldn’t get away with spouting the hate she does

UK October 4, 2023

Participants pass through Westbourne Park during the adults parade, part of the Notting Hill Carnival celebration near west London over the Summer Bank Holiday weekend. Picture date: Monday August 28, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SOCIAL Carnival. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

Society takes from Black culture, but often doesn’t want Black people along with it

UK September 1, 2023

A person is detained outside McDonald's on Oxford Street, central London. Picture date: Wednesday August 9, 2023. PA Photo. The Metropolitan Police has said there will be a heightened police presence in the central London area following speculation about an event advertised to be taking place on Wednesday afternoon. See PA story POLICE OxfordStreet. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Young people, stop throwing your lives away trying to be TikTok famous

Politics August 18, 2023

(FILES) Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on July 19, 2023 on his way to take part in the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons. The UK government said on July 31, 2023, it would issue "hundreds" of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea to secure energy reserves while still aiming for net zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Desperate Sunak has set a trap - Labour must avoid falling in

News August 7, 2023

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday May 17, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

I'm sick of Tory liars in Parliament

Politics July 20, 2023

BRITAIN-POLITICS

Police officers need to be paid more - but only on this one condition

UK July 6, 2023

Downing Street partygate

I was demonised for calling Boris Johnson a liar - I finally feel vindicated

UK June 16, 2023

Prime Minister Attends London Defence Conference

Rishi Sunak is a spineless and selfish prime minister

Politics June 8, 2023

Jacob Rees-Mogg's State of The Nation

The Tories lied about why they introduced voter ID - Rees-Mogg let it slip

UK May 26, 2023

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer joins party members in Chatham, Kent, where Labour has taken overall control of Medway Council for the first time since 1998 after winning 30 of its 59 seats in the local elections. Picture date: Friday May 5, 2023. PA Photo. The Tories suffered major losses in Rishi Sunak's first electoral test as Prime Minister, with Labour claiming the results suggest Sir Keir Starmer will be able to replace him in No 10. The Liberal Democrats also made gains as the Tories lost control of a series of councils across England. See PA story POLITICS Elections. Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Local results were good for Labour - but it doesn’t mean we’ll win a general election

UK May 9, 2023

London Polling Station

Voter ID is just another way for the Tories to grab power at the expense of the people

UK April 21, 2023

TOPSHOT - Members of the public are pictured beyond hearts painted on the National Covid Memorial Wall, as they queue to receive a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine outside a coronavirus vaccination centre outside Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in central London on December 13, 2021. - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said at least one person infected with Omicron had died, as the country began an ambitious booster programme against the variant. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

There needs to be a permanent national Covid memorial - and the Tories need to visit it

UK April 6, 2023

epa10535140 Metropolitan police officers outside New Scotland Yard in London, Britain, 21 March 2023. Baroness Louise Casey has published her report into the toxic culture of the Metropolitan Police. The damning report has found the Metropolitan Police to be institutionally sexist, racist, homophobic and has failed untold numbers of women and children. EPA/ANDY RAIN

If the Met Police can’t get rid of rotten apples, we’ll have to fell the tree

UK March 23, 2023

A protester holds a placard which states 'The police force,

Wayne Couzens’ WhatsApp messages with other policemen shows all need vetting

UK March 9, 2023

A member the public looks through food items inside a foodbank in Hackney, north-east London on October 31, 2022. - There were dozens of people on Monday queuing outside the Foodbank in Hackney, an east London district, with a voucher allowing them to obtain a basket containing three days' worth of food. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

As food bank use soars, the consequences of Tory rule have never been more obvious

UK February 24, 2023

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 07: In this photo illustration a prepay electricity key sits in a prepayment electricity meter in a rented home on February 07, 2023 in Birmingham, England. Ofgem has ordered all UK energy companies to suspend the practice of forcibly installing prepayment meters and will report back to the Business Secretary today. (Photo illusttration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Prepayment meters are a national scandal - forced instalment is the tip of the iceberg

UK February 10, 2023

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 25: Minister without Portfolio, Nadhim Zahawi, leaves the Conservative Campaign Headquarters on January 25, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Nadhim Zahawi and Boris Johnson’s reported money grabs prove you can’t trust the Tories

UK January 26, 2023