Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
almost a year ago after she suggested in a letter to The Observer that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people have never been “subject to racism”.She later apologised “unreservedly” for any “anguish” and said she withdrew the comments.Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to parliament in 1987, has sat as an independent MP ever since.
He said: “She was suspended from the PLP a year ago for saying something she probably shouldn’t have said and she apologised for it. John McDonnell, another former shadow chancellor, said: “Members on the left, right and centre of the Labour Party are calling for the whip to be restored to Diane Abbott.
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