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‘Let me stand,’ Diane Abbott tells Sir Keir
Corbyn to carry the radical spirit of his tenure as Labour leader by fighting for his Islington North seat as an independent
Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn on stage at the Labour Party Conference

BRITAIN’S first black female MP told Sir Keir Starmer today to give her the right to stand for Labour in the general election.

Diane Abbott told the Morning Star that she wanted to continue as Labour MP for the Hackney North constituency she has represented since 1987.

Ms Abbott said: “I apologised promptly for the letter to the Observer which caused all the fuss. But 13 months later Keir Starmer still cannot come to a decision about whether he thinks that I should be allowed to rejoin the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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