. A member of the House of Lords has been accused of racism for referring to US vice-president elect Kamala Harris as “the Indian”.
Life peer Lord John Kilclooney, 82, a former Ulster Unionist MP from Northern Ireland, was criticised after he used the term in a tweet about the Harris on Monday.
He tweeted: “What happens if Biden moves on and the Indian becomes president. Who then becomes vice-president?”
Harris was born in Oakland, California. Her late mother was from India, while her father was born in Jamaica.
She made history on Saturday when she became the first woman – and first woman of colour – to be elected US vice-president.
Labour MP Wes Streeting said that “action must be taken” over the life peer’s “unacceptable racism”.
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