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The Labour leader said it was right to “support” the MP after the Tories’ biggest donor, Frank Hester, was alleged to have saidthe anti-Semitism accusations Abbott faces
“That was allegations of anti-Semitism in relation to a letter, which is subject to an ongoing investigation which is separate from me,” he said.The Labour leader said the party “must support” Abbott and insisted she was a “trailblazer” as parliament’s first black female MP.then said: “In some countries there would be a statue of her, and yet she may not be able to fight her seat in the next election if you don’t hurry up and resolve this.
“There is a separate issue, which is Diane’s own language, which is subject to a different procedure. I don’t think we can conflate the two at this stage.”But deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner later said she wanted to see the MP re-admitted to the parliamentary Labour party.
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