• Wion
  • /World
  • /UK peer Lord Kilclooney apologises for 'offensive' tweet on Kamala Harris

UK peer Lord Kilclooney apologises for 'offensive' tweet on Kamala Harris

UK peer Lord Kilclooney apologises for 'offensive' tweet on Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris

A former deputy of the UlsterUnion Party calledLord Kilclooney hasapologised for his ''offensive'' tweet about USvice president-elect Kamala Harris.

Earlier,Lord Kilclooney had tweeted"What happens if Biden moves on and the Indian becomes President. Who then becomes Vice President?"

Add WION as a Preferred Source

The 82-year-old's post had sparked outrage and thepeer was widely criticised for the ''offensive tweet''.

Labour shadow minister Wes Streeting pointed out that this was not the first time thatLord Kilclooney hadsaid like this and added “action must be taken” over the tweet.

The Speaker of the Lords, Norman Fowler, was among those to demand John Kilclooney to retract and apologise for his remarks on Harris.

Kamala Harris made history on Saturday with her election as Joe Biden's vice president, becoming the first woman, first Black American, and first Asian American to win the second-highest US office.

A US senator from California, Harris has a track record of shattering glass ceilings. She served as San Francisco’s first female district attorney and was California's first woman of colour to be elected attorney general.

Harris, whose mother and father emigrated from India and Jamaica, respectively, had her sights set on becoming the first woman US president when she competed against Biden and others for their party's 2020 nomination.