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The Labour leader rejected claims Diane Abbott had been barred from standing for the party, but the episode highlights long-running party tensions.
With clarity still lacking over whether the country's first black female MP will be able to stand for her party, it is a distraction from an otherwise slick election campaign.
Jacqueline McKenzie, decades-long friend and colleague of Diane Abbott, criticises her 'shoddy' treatment from Keir Starmer's Labour Party.
Will this botched stage handling backfire?
Labour MP Abbott has allegedly been barred from standing as a Labour candidate following comments about antisemitism