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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker and Aletha Adu

Diane Abbott’s comments on racism were antisemitic, says Keir Starmer

Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott has lost the lost Labour whip pending an investigation after her comments on racism. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Keir Starmer has condemned comments about racism by Diane Abbott as “antisemitic” but said any decision about whether she could stand again as a Labour MP would be made after a formal investigation.

In a letter to the Observer published on Sunday, Abbott suggested that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism “all their lives”, prompting Labour to withdraw the whip.

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