Sir Keir Starmer may have thought he had lanced the boil of antisemitism within the Labour Party, but Diane Abbott’s alarming letter in the Observer has once again shown it has not been completely stamped out RichardVaughan1 reports
Ms Abbott came under serious criticism on Sunday, when she appeared to suggest that theThe Labour leader wasted no time in suspending the former shadow home secretary from the parliamentary party, despite her attempts to apologise for the comments.
Sir Keir was quick to remove the whip but he now faces a significant dilemma. On the one hand, it presents him with an opportunity to further purge the party of another of the Labour left’s old guard, one who – as proven with her letter – is capable of causing highly toxic political problems for the leader.
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