Theresa may has ordered the suspension of the MP for New Abbot in Devon, Anne Marie Morris after she used the n-word at an event during a discussion about Brexit. Her comments were recorded by the Huffington post at the East India Club triggered a lot of backlash from opposition politicians who called for her suspension accusing her of racism.
Theresa May reacted by suspending Anne for comments she described as 'shocking and unacceptable'. Morris was recorded saying at the event "Now I’m sure there will be many people who’ll challenge that, but my response and my request is look at the detail, it isn’t all doom and gloom. Now we get to the real nigger in the woodpile, which is, in two years what happens if there is no deal?”
Morris shortly after released an apology in email thus "The comment was totally unintentional. I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused,”
“I was shocked to hear of these remarks, which are completely unacceptable,” May said. “I immediately asked the chief whip to suspend the party whip. Language like this has absolutely no place in politics or in today’s society.”
Morris is likely to carry on voting with the whip but the move notionally reduces May’s fragile majority of just six, if both Conservative and DUP MPs are included. Politicians from across the spectrum expressed their disgust at Morris’s words, including Tory MP Heidi Allen, who said an apology was not enough and the party must show zero tolerance towards racism.
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