Lord Kilclooney is urged ‘retract and apologise’ after tweet about US vice-president-elect

A former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist party and member of the House of Lords has been called on to apologise after referring to the US vice-president-elect as “the Indian” in a tweet.

The Speaker of the Lords, Norman Fowler, was among those to demand Lord Kilclooney retract his remarks about Kamala Harris – who is the first black and Asian-American person to be elected to the role.

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