US EditionLabour Looking Into Abbott's Comments About Racism
GREATER LONDON, ENGLAND, JUL 17 – Labour Party is reviewing Diane Abbott's remarks on racism after she reaffirmed differences in racial experiences, despite previous suspension and apology.
- This week, Labour has said it is looking `incredibly seriously` at an interview in which Diane Abbott said she had no regrets about her remarks.
- In 2023, Diane Abbott wrote a letter to the Observer insisting Irish, Traveller and Jewish people 'undoubtedly experience prejudice' that is 'similar to racism', and she was readmitted during the general election campaign last year.
- During her Reflections interview, Diane Abbott argued you can see a Traveller or Jewish person walking down the street but you don’t know their background, unlike visible skin colour.
- It follows the whip suspension from four MPs for discipline breaches, and senior Labour sources expect Diane Abbott to lose the whip again, according to The Times.
- This coincides with the Jewish Labour Movement saying it was disappointed by Abbott’s comments and welcomed Labour reviewing the remarks, amid broader party tensions.
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Diane Abbott v the Labour Party
It has been over two years since Diane Abbott sent that letter to the Observer, in which she argued that while Irish, Jewish and Traveller people could experience “prejudice”, “they are not all their lives subject to racism”, comparing the impact on their lives to the prejudice faced by “redheads”. At the time, it looked as though that letter might have ended her political career. Having spent the first years of his Labour leadership attempting …
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