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The row caused by Diane Abbott’s dreadful letter was depressing, but just as sad was what it revealed about modern racial politics, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Labour’s former Kensington MP has quit the party, saying it is “unrecognisable” under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.

RACISTS were having a hell of a day on Sunday. They were allowed to engage in their favourite pastime – inverting the roles and accusing those who…

Britain’s Labour leader Keir Starmer has condemned Diane Abbott’s comments about racism as “anti-Semitic” and said they will never be accepted in the party.

The veteran MP was stripped of the Labour whip after sparking a backlash with a letter to The Observer claiming Jewish people are not subject to racism, which she has since apologised for and blamed on it being an initial draft.

Diane Abbott was elected as Britains first black female MP in 1987. But in her 36-year career, the trailblazing MP has been no stranger to controversy and has often provoked the ire of her own party colleagues.

Whatever happens next, Sir Keir Starmer will be remembered as a historically consequential Labour leader. In April 2020, he inherited a smoking ruin of a party that had suffered its worst election defeat since 1935, wrecked by Jeremy Corbyn’s disastrous leadership and stained by anti-Semitism. Three years on and, quite remarkably, he has brought Labour back to the brink of office.

The long-serving MP has been suspended from the Labour party by Sir Keir Starmer, who said her remarks claiming that Jewish people do not experience racism were antisemitic

Hackney MP Diane Abbott has had the Labour party whip suspended following comments she made about racism in a letter to the Observer.

STEPHEN POLLARD: Diane Abbott has managed in one fell swoop to find a new way to minimise the Holocaust and warp the entire meaning of anti-Semitism.