BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 17:15:00
National executive committee, the body that essentially runs the party rule book and they meet next week to formally endorse all of labour's candidate so that was the position for a long time, we can't say anything because it is up to the nec and then a change happened when labour's deputy leader, angela rayner, went further than her colleagues in saying she did not see any reason why diane abbott shouldn't be allowed to stand as a labour candidate and then those questions were thrown back to keir starmer once more and after a bit of confusion he eventually came out and said diane abbott was i...