Michelle Brown, a Ukip politician, has been excluded from the Welsh assembly without pay for a week over a racial slur she made against a Labour MP, which came to light last year. The assembly member for north Wales called Chuka Umunna, the MP for Streatham, a “fucking coconut” during a conversation in May 2016 with an adviser. Members of the Welsh assembly’s cross-party standards committee said Brown’s comments, made in a private phone call released to a newspaper, brought the assembly into disrepute. Paul Davies, a Tory assembly member, said it was the first time the committee had recommended such a sanction and that it had not been taken lightly. He said: “I don’t think it’s right for me ... to vote to ban an assembly member for north Wales.

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2018 17:58 UTC