AN URGENT meeting with Sir Keir Starmer has been requested by a number of Labour national executive committee (NEC) members to discuss his “inadequate response to far-right attitudes.”

NEC member Laura Pidcock said the party’s ruling body wanted to discuss with the Labour leader his reaction to a far-right caller during his “call Keir” session on LBC radio.

Earlier this week, the phone-in heard a woman called Gemma air white-supremacist views and promote a conspiracy theory advocated by racists. 

Sir Keir has been widely criticised by Labour MPs and anti-racists for failing to challenge the conspiracy theory directly.

The caller, who said that her husband had joined in the booing of Millwall footballers for protesting against racism, asked whether white people should “also start playing identity politics now before they become a minority themselves by 2066.”

The question reflected the “white replacement” conspiracy theory advanced by white nationalists and the far right.

Responding to the first statement, Sir Keir said: “Gemma, I don’t think it was right to boo, there’s no getting away from that.”

He also said: “What [taking the knee] represents is a recognition of injustice that has gone on for many, many years in relation to racial inequality.”

LBC host Nick Ferrari asked the caller why her husband chose to boo the players, and she repeated the belief that “racial inequality is now against the indigenous people of Britain because we are set to become a minority by 2066.”

Neither Mr Ferrari nor Sir Keir picked up on her promotion of the conspiracy theory.

Ms Pidcock said: “We believe it’s vital that such views are challenged and all forms of racism resisted.”

A Labour spokesperson said that Sir Keir “completely rejects the racist conspiracy theory that this caller espoused.”