
MORE politicians seem to be losing the whip in Westminster. On Sunday, Diane Abbott was suspended as a Labour MP after she wrote a letter to a newspaper in which she minimised racism and prejudice suffered by Jewish, Irish and Traveller people. Abbott takes the total MPs elected for Labour who sit without the whip to seven.
There are currently 16 Independent MPs in total who lost the whip. One is Matt Hancock, who was disciplined for going on I’m a Celebrity.