Exclusive: Deputy leader says Abbott has not been treated fairly by some and confirms she has not been barred from running
Diane Abbott has not been treated “fairly or appropriately” by some Labour colleagues and should be allowed to stand again for the party at the election if she wishes to do so,
Rayner rejected claims that only leftwing candidates had been blocked, after two – Faiza Shaheen in Chingford and Woodford Green and Lloyd Russell-Moyle in Brighton Kemptown – announced they had been barred. Abbott, the UK’s first female black MP, had been set to make a “dignified exit” from parliament after a four-decade career, in an arrangement in which she was given back the Labour whip after an investigation into comments she made about racism. But the deal appeared to collapse after an unknown Labour source briefed journalists that she would nonetheless be barred from standing again in her Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, prompting fury from her allies.
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