Diane Abbott has been suspended by Labour… again. The party said that it’s taking “incredibly seriously” an interview she gave to James Naughtie’s Reflections programme on BBC Radio 4 conducted back in May, but only aired on Thursday.
During the interview, the veteran Labour MP said she did not look back with regret on comments she previously made in 2023 in a letter to The Observer, in which she was seen to be downplaying the discrimination received by groups such as the Jewish, Irish and Traveller communities, by comparing it to that experienced by Black and brown people.
