Obvious Labour leadership wants me out, Diane Abbott tells BBC

Diane Abbott told the BBC to Newsnight through the party’s comments on racism and told the BBC to Newsnight, “This is clear that this labor leadership wanted me.

The suspension means that Abbott will sit as an independent deputy known as losing Whip, waiting for an investigation into his statements. Worker, “this investigation continues,” he said he would not comment.

After a BBC interview, where Abbott was asked questions about the 2023 debate, when he was suspended as a worker deputy in a letter to a newspaper about racism.

BBC asked James Naughtie if he looked at the whole event with regret: “No, it’s not at all.”

In a letter to the observer newspaper, Irish, Jewish and traveler people wrote “” prejudice “” like “racism”.

“It is true that many white people with difference points such as redheads can experience this prejudice. But all their lives are not subject to racism.”

Abbott accelerated the explanations that have been intensively criticized by Jewish and traveling groups and apologize for any pain caused by “.

However, he was suspended from the party and was re -accepted just before last year’s general elections.

In the last interview, he said: “Frankly, there must be a difference between racism about color and other types of racism, because you can see a traveler or a Jewish person walking on the street, you don’t know.

“You don’t know unless you stop talking to them or you’re not at a meeting with them.

“But if you see a black person walking on the street, you will see that they are black. Different types of racism.”

“I think it is stupid to claim that racism is the same as other types of racism.”

Abbott, after the news about the suspension of the BBC interview with an online clip released, only “This is my interview clip” wrote and then did not respond to comments.

Later, BBC published a short statement to Newsnight and added: “My comments with James Naughtie in the interview were actually true as a fair -minded person would accept.”

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said to the Guardian newspaper: “There is no place for anti -Semitism in the Labor Party, and frankly the Labor Party has processes for this.

“Diane reflected how it brought this article together, and ‘it didn’t have to be a version’ and now I endured in half and ‘good, actually I didn’t mean it. In fact, I mean what I said at the beginning’, I think it’s a real challenge.”

John McDonnell, former workers’ Shadow, sent to X to defend his colleague.

He said: “People, including the Labor Party Spokespersons, I can recommend that Diane’s interview about the BBC reflections in which Diane clearly condemned the anti -Semitism and discusses the forms of different racism before commenting on Diane Abbott’s fate or deciding.”

In the BBC interview, Abbott was asked that he would not condemn someone as racist behavior against someone because of the color of his skin.

“Of course, and I am a little tired of people trying to fix the antisemitic label to me because to combat all kinds of lifelong racism and especially anti -Semitism, partly due to the nature of my election region.”

Hackney North and Stoke Newington Deputy, who entered the parliament in 1987 in Commons, the longest serving in Commons.

In a BBC interview, he said he was “grateful” to become a worker deputy, but his party leadership was sure that he was “trying to get me out”.

Listen to James Naughtie’s interview with Diane Abbott BBC SOUNDS.