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“This is something he said five years ago, he wasn’t talking to Diane Abbott, it wasn’t even really about Diane Abbott, he used her in a reference which was completely unacceptable.in a statement that Hester “accepts that he was rude about Diane Abbott in a private meeting several years ago but his criticism had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin”.In his first public comments on the row, Hester also said: “Racism ... is a poison that has no place in public life.
They began to speak over each other, until the minister said: “These comments were no way reflective of the work he’s been doing while we’ve taken his money. “The person he’s made the comments about has of course been suspended from the party for the same thing.”from the Labour Party last year after she suggested Jewish, Irish and Traveller people had never been “subject to racism”.
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