Labour has demanded an apology after the conservatives won control of a council after reinstating a councillor suspended for sharing a racist funny story on facebook.
Rosemary carroll's return to tory ranks handed the birthday party control of pendle council in lancashire by a single seat.
Shadow chancellor john mcdonnell stated it become "unacceptable".
Conservative celebration chairman brandon lewis stated he might "have a glance" at the case.
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Mr lewis told sky information ms carroll had taken component in range training and that her case have been "handled regionally" remaining yr.
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She has previously said she supposed to delete the put up, which as compared an asian person to a dog, however ended up publishing it with the aid of mistake.
"the truth is while we have these troubles we cope with them and she or he is a good instance of that, that become handled at the time and it turned into handled regionally to be fair as nicely," he said.
Mr mcdonnell advised the bbc's andrew marr show: "to have the conservative birthday celebration take control of that council by way of reinstating a councillor who used the foulest, foulest shaggy dog story, a racist comic story is unacceptable."
He called on mr lewis, who tweeted his congratulations to the pendle tories after the election, to apologise and for ms carroll to be suspended again.
Conservative enterprise secretary greg clark said he was certain that "party government" could be investigating.
Ms carroll become suspended for 3 months in june 2017 over the incident. After the suspension expired, she persisted to take a seat as an impartial councillor for the earby ward. Previously she had held the yr-long put up of pendle's mayor among 2016 and 2017.
Pendle could were a hung council following thursday's local elections if she had persisted as an independent, however on friday the council said it have been notified ms carroll had "re-joined the conservative institution".
The conservatives now manipulate pendle with 25 seats, beforehand of labour's 15 and the liberal democrats' nine.
