says that we, the labour party, are better than this. the labour spokesperson on the airwaves this morning lucy powell sounded a bit uncomfortable trying to defend it stressing that it might not be everyone s cup of tea and she didn t personally come up with a graphic itself. in the last hour, the shadow attorney general emily thornberry has been on radio saying she does not believe that there are any racist undertones to this poster but there has been criticism from the conservatives, sajid javid, the former home secretary says it is a champion, and lee anderson the vice chairman of the party has called it gutter politics. and the timescale that we are talking about does include some of the time when sir keir starmer, the labour leader, was not working in politics parts was not working in politics parts was the director of public prosecutions, so they are trying to question his record when it comes to justice. a controversial advert but at this point labour sticking by it, not taking