As the controversy over whether former Shadow Home Secretary Dianne Abbot should be standing in the forthcoming General Election,Greater Manchester MP and Deputy Leader Angela Rayner has stepped into the row
Rayner has said this afternoon in an interview on ITV that “I don’t see any reason why Diane Abbott can’t stand as a Labour MP going forward… I am saying that as the deputy leader of the Labour Party.”
Earlier Labour leader Keir Starmer said that “no final decision” had been taken saying at a press conference that he wanted the “highest quality” candidates for the upcoming general election.while Abbott told a rally in Hackney yesterday that Labour had “banned” her as a candidate
This lunchtime Labour NEC member Gemma Bolton said that the committee will vote on whether to endorse a list of candidates in a meeting on Tuesday – and vows to vote in favour of Abbott being allowed to stand for Labour.
