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Abbott's future in the balance as row escalates
Then shadow home secretary Diane Abbott at the launch of the Labour Party race and faith manifesto at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, north London, November 2019
'These figures should be a wake-up call'
LABOUR’S election campaign sunk into chaos today as confusion over the status of Diane Abbott’s candidacy deepened.
Despite having been restored to the Labour whip after a spurious 13-month “investigation,” Ms Abbott said that she had been told that she will be prevented from representing the party in her Hackney North seat.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer denied today that she had been blocked, but did not confirm that Britian’s first black woman MP would be the party’s standard-bearer in the constituency she has represented since 1987.
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