UK's Labour readmits Diane Abbott after suspension over race remarks
Both MPs regain the Labour whip after an independent review, while Abbott receives a formal warning over a separate post, party officials said.
- On Thursday, the Labour Party readmitted long-serving MP Diane Abbott and East Kilbride MP Joani Reid, restoring the parliamentary whip to both following an independent review board process.
- Abbott received a formal warning for a tweet referring to the "Jewish Defence Force," for which she apologized for conflating the Israel Defence Force with the Jewish community.
- Reid voluntarily suspended herself earlier this year after her husband, David Taylor, was arrested on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service; she was never a police suspect.
- Labour officials emphasized decisions were made "independently of the leadership and political interference," though the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council questioned the party's zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism.
- The readmissions occur shortly after Prime Minister Andy Burnham succeeded Keir Starmer, marking a strategic pivot as the new administration seeks to distance itself from previous factionalism.
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Burnham restores the whip to Diane Abbott and deplorable bigot Joani Reid
With Andy Burnham not two weeks into his tenure as PM, the new Labour leader has restored the whip to both Diane Abbott and Joani Reid. Both MPs went through independent disciplinary processes. Starmer suspended Abbott for a second time back in July 2025. Both suspensions related to a 2023 letter in the Observer, in which […] By Grace
Diane Abbott Readmitted to Labour Party After Year-Long Suspension
Britain’s longest-serving female MP, Diane Abbott, has been readmitted to the Labour party, a year after she was suspended amid a purge of leftwing figures under former leader Keir Starmer. Abbott, who became the first Black female MP to enter parliament in 1987, was suspended in July 2025 after she said Black people experience racism differently to Jewish people, sparking accusations of antisemitism. In a tweet on Friday, Abbott said she had b…
Labour readmits Diane Abbott after suspension over race remarks
Britain’s Labour Party said on Thursday that it had readmitted the country’s longest-serving female lawmaker Diane Abbott, ending a suspension imposed last year over comments on racism that had reignited a row over antisemitism. Abbott, Britain’s first black woman member of parliament, was suspended by the Labour Party in July 2025 under Keir Starmer – […]
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