Labour suspends Unite leadership nominee over ‘Patel should be deported’ tweet

Howard Beckett, a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, later apologised and deleted the tweet

Labour has suspended a leadership candidate for the Unite trade union from the party after he called for the home secretary, Priti Patel, to be deported on Twitter.

Howard Beckett, the union's assistant general secretary and a member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC), has since apologised and deleted the message following criticism.