Sir Keir Starmer has said Diane Abbott’s comments will never be accepted in the Labour party. ‘In my view what she said was to be condemned, it was antisemitic.’
the whip suspended yesterday after she suggested Jewish, Irish and Traveller people are not subject to racism ‘all their lives’She said in a letter in The Observer that although white people ‘with points of difference’ suffer prejudice, they have not suffered the same racism as black people.
Sir Keir added: ‘Diane Abbott has suffered a lot of racial abuse over many many years – that doesn’t take away from the fact that I condemn the words she used and we must never accept the argument that there’s some sort of hierarchy of racism. Earlier, Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said disciplinary matters ‘will be a matter for the chief whip and the leader’ and the party had ‘no choice’ but to take action against Ms Abbott.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatIt is unsure whether the London MP will stand again at the next election after her comments
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