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Abbott's future in the balance as row escalates
Diane Abbott
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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