A senior Conservative MP has described wearing blackface as an 'entirely acceptable bit of fun'
A senior Conservative MP has described wearing blackface as an"entirely acceptable bit of fun".
Sir Desmond Swayne hinted he wore blackface when attending a fancy dress party as soul singer James Brown - and said he"went to some trouble to be as authentic as possible"., whose re-election campaign ran into trouble after photographs showed him dressed in an Aladdin costume and wearing black make-up.Labour immediately criticised the comments by the MP for New Forest West, and called on the Conservatives to take action.
The Tory, who was knighted by David Cameron in 2016, wrote:"He would have done better to have said it was an entirely acceptable bit of fun and refused to apologise.
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