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A shadow Cabinet minister has told Labour to "get our s**t together" as she called for members to focus everything on fighting "far-right" Boris Johnson .

Dawn Butler gave a hard-hitting speech to the first day of Labour's conference in Brighton where she warned the far-right is "fastest growing threat in the UK".

The Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary announced Labour will commission an independent review of the far right if it gets into government.

And after referring to Boris Johnson, and his supporters Donald Trump and far-right extremist Tommy Robinson, she told delegates: "They may not wear pointy white hats anymore but they are still amongst us."

The white supremacist Ku Klux Klan - a former senior member of whom backed Trump - infamously wore white pointed hats. Labour sources later claimed Ms Butler was talking about Boris Johnson's supporters, including Robinson and Trump, but not the PM himself.

Elsewhere, Ms Butler also said there "must" be further reparations paid from slavery after Glasgow University agreed to make available £20million.

She said: "Other banks and businesses must follow. Labour will begin with consultation hubs in Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow and London."

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Ms Butler gave her speech after Labour kicked off its conference with a civil war, with left-wingers launching an aborted bid to boot out deputy leader Tom Watson.

The equalities chief opened her speech by warning: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing."

She mocked the PM as "Johnson by name, Johnson by nature" and added: "If we don't get our s**t together, Boris Johnson is going to win.

"Boris Johnson, Donald Trump - these are just some of the bad racist men who are combining, and we are the good people who need to associate."

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She added: "For the first time in our country’s history, we have a Prime Minister who the far-right regard as their leader.

"Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - you may know him better by his stage name Tommy Robinson - he proclaimed 'We Back Boris'.

"And Boris’s close friend Donald Trump ’s campaign was supported by the Ku Klux Klan and its former Wizard.

"They may not wear pointy white hats anymore but they are still amongst us."

She added: "This is such a dark time in our history. And if we don't stand up to them now, it will get worse.

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"All you have to do is open the paper and look at social media and you can see the abuse. MPs and politicians are subjected to vile threats every single day.

"The person that threatened to kill me is in jail.

"People are being attacked in the streets, there is a huge rise in hate crime, people have been raped and beaten up just because they have a different point of view, or skin colour, or religion or just because of who they love."

Ms Butler branded Boris Johnson "spoilt and dangerous" and said he as cheating by shutting down Parliament - "and I'm not talking about that kind of cheating", she joked.

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She added: "I'm sure he has lied to every single woman in his entire life.

"So of course it's not much stretch of the imagination to conclude he lied to the Queen".

Ms Butler announced Labour would commission an independent review of the far-right if it won power.

Labour's review would examine far-right language on social media, how the far-right is funded and how it is organising internationally to spread a dangerous message.