on monday, a member of the house of lords, lord kilclooney, tweeted this question: "what happens if biden on and the indian becomes president. who then becomes vice president?" that phrase, "the indian", to describe kamala harris caused some outrage, and the peer later deleted the tweet, claiming it was a mistake, but he did not apologise. the bbc news website described it as an "offensive" and a "racist" tweet, but put both of those words in quotation marks, which elicited this response from andrew pickering... two days later, the chairman of the football associaton, greg clarke, was answering questions before a parliamentary select committee about diversity. here's dan roan, reporting for bbc news bulletins. if you go to the it department at the fa, there's a lot more south asians than there are afro—caribbeans. they have different career interests. but that wasn't all he said. clarke then referring to black players using an offensive and outdated term. high—profile coloured footballers and the abuse they take... greg clarke resigned from his post later the same day. he said he was "dee

lord kilclooney has insisted there was nothing racist in the tweet.nly withdraw my reference to her as certainly withdraw my reference to heras an indian certainly withdraw my reference to her as an indian as it seems to have upset some people. i did not know her name and identified her with the term indian. most people understood. i suspect that won‘t be quite enough for some people, including the lord speaker who tweeted a few minutes ago, or slightly longer ago, that he told lord kilclooney to retract his comments which he hasjust told lord kilclooney to retract his comments which he has just done and apologise. this is an offensive way to refer to anyone let alone a woman who has just made to refer to anyone let alone a woman who hasjust made history. that follows other reaction for the conservative mp who i have just spoken to. he said he had submitted a formal complaint. others are saying they will submit official complaints, and the labour party deputy leader who said her name is kamala harris. he has in the last few minutes retracted that term

lord kilclooney, i don't know if you saw his tweet in regards to kamala harris and i think the tweetithdrawn but no apology and he seems to have dug in to try and justify his comment. remind us of what he tweeted.” basically don't have in front of me but he was saying ifjoe biden does not continue as president and kamala harris takes over as vice president but the point... he said the indian becomes president and who becomes vice president? the point i was going to make and he referred to kamala harris as the indian which many felt was grossly offensive. 0ne of the most successful women in a generation who is become the vice president of the us and he says it's about her. it is because outrage and i cannot tell you how angry peers from all parties are throughout the house today and i written to the commissioner of the house of lords tonight and the lords speaker and askedif tonight and the lords speaker and asked if they can investigate this ultimate this is not the way we would expect anybody in parliament to be speaking about other people in those terms and whether you are in the h

on monday, a member of the house of lords, lord kilclooney, tweeted this question — "what happens if later, the chairman of the football associaton, greg clarke, was answering questions before a parliamentary select committee about diversity. here's dan roan, reporting for bbc news bulletins. if you go to the it department at the fa, there's a lot more south asians than there are afro—caribbeans. they have different career interests. but that wasn't all he said. clarke then referring to black players using an offensive and outdated term. high—profile coloured footballers and the abuse they take... greg clarke resigned from his post later the same day. he said he was "deeply saddened" for the offence he had caused by using that term. and that evening, one viewer — david buttar — emailed us to say... well, to discuss all this, let's speak to kamal ahmed, the editorial director for bbc news. kamal, let's start with the two cases this week. the first one, with the peer referring to the us vice president—elect as "the indian". now, the bbc described that as a "racist" tweet, with the word