The row is damaging the party’s general election campaign
Jeremy Corbyn with Faiza Shaheen in 2019. Shaheen has been suspended by Labour over tweets she had 'liked'. It was alleged some of the tweets had played up anti-Semitic tropes. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PAHe must now seek a way to calm the situation before it spirals out of his control and further overshadows Labour’s campaign. Starmer will find it difficult to maintain his favourite attack line about “Tory chaos” while his own party is mired in tumultuous infighting.
Until this week Abbott, a Labour MP for 37 years, had been suspended for the past year over comments she made in the Observer newspaper downplaying the discrimination faced by Jews, Irish people and Travellers, in comparison to racism endured by black people.Nigel Farage and Richard Tice of Reform UK preach for a business tax on foreign workers
Cue a furious backlash from Labour’s left, who accused Starmer’s team of a spiteful humiliation of Abbott. Even Labour moderates believed she had been treated with disrespect.Lloyd Russell-Moyle, an MP in Brighton, was suspended on Wednesday after an unspecified allegation was made against him. He described it as “vexatious and politically motivated” and “designed to disrupt” his election bid.
Russell-Moyle appears to have resigned himself to not being allowed to stand but Shaheen said on Thursday she would take legal action.
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