Watch: Labour’s Dawn Butler raps in ‘beyond embarrassing’ election campaign video
Dawn Butler has posted a video of herself rapping over a garage track as part of her general election campaigning efforts.
The Labour candidate for Brent East posted a clip of herself singing over a remixed version of 21 Seconds, by So Solid Crew, on Thursday.
Ms Butler can be heard shouting “come on 4th July, don’t forget to vote” before she sings lyrics which include: “If you like me let me know, let me out the shadow, we’ve got 21 days before they [the Tories] gotta go.”
“Rishi on D-Day, where did he go? Don’t let a liar run the show.”
🚨 URGENT 🚨
🎶We've got 21 days before they've got to go🎶😎
Vote for @UKLabour. Vote for me as your MP for Brent East on Thursday 4th July. #Dawn4BrentEast pic.twitter.com/2AjR6ei1X6— Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 (@DawnButlerBrent) June 13, 2024
Ms Butler is referring to the Prime Minister leaving a D-Day ceremony in Normandy early last week to attend a broadcast interview with ITV.
She continues: “The Labour party is here to stay, we’re going to the very top, the Tories, their time is up. The Tories, they’re too corrupt.”
Wearing a camouflage trench coat and black sunglasses, Ms Butler can be seen dancing to the track.
Alongside the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, she wrote: “Urgent. We’ve got 21 days before they’ve got to go. Vote for Labour. Vote for me as your MP for Brent East on Thursday 4th July.”
The clip was met with mixed reactions.
“This is beyond embarrassing, the UK’s political class is a joke,” wrote one person who viewed it.
Whereas Paulette Hamilton, Labour’s candidate for Birmingham Erdington, said: “Fantastic, I love this! Very different but young people will relate to it.”
The video comes as Labour unveiled its manifesto ahead of the upcoming election.
The party revealed its plans to hike taxes by £8.6 billion by launching raids on private schools, overseas property investors and non-doms.
Despite Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly insisting all his policies would be fully costed, the manifesto only provides a breakdown of costs for the final year of a Labour government.
The Conservative party was contacted for comment.