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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Diane Abbott accuses Labour of ‘fraudulent’ inquiry into racism comments

Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott says there is a feeling she will not get a fair hearing after she lost the Labour party whip following observations about Jewish, Irish and Traveller people. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Diane Abbott has accused Labour of leading a “fraudulent” investigation into her comments about racism that left her suspended from the party.

Abbott, who became the UK’s first black female MP in 1987, has claimed the party’s whips office is no longer conducting a formal investigation. Instead, she claims the internal inquiry is “now run entirely out of the Labour party HQ, which reports to Keir Starmer – and there is no investigation”.

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