Diane Abbott claims Keir Starmer ‘treated her as a non-person’

MP Diane Abbott has claimed Sir Keir Starmer treated her arsenic a ‘non-person’ aft a Tory donor made racist comments astir her.

Abbott claimed she was treated severely during the autumn retired aft Tory donor Frank Hester made racist comments astir her past year.

In an interrogation with BBC Newsnight, Abbott said Starmer ‘never reached retired to her personally and did dainty maine arsenic a non-person’.

She added: ‘If idiosyncratic was threatening to person you shot, you would person felt your enactment would person offered you much support, giving you proposal connected information and security, adjacent benignant of commiserated with you. And nary of that happened.’

Hester made remarks, including that Ms Abbott ‘should beryllium shot’, during astatine a gathering successful 2019, according to a Guardian report.

The paper said Hester told his colleagues helium did not hatred each achromatic women earlier making his remarks astir the politician.

A Labour spokesperson told Metro: ‘Keir Starmer has large respect for Diane Abbott and she continues to beryllium an inspiration to many. There is nary uncertainty that she has received the astir maltreatment of immoderate MP conscionable due to the fact that of her sex and the colour of her skin, and that is wholly reprehensible and wrong. 

‘The party, including Keir Starmer, vocally condemned Frank Hester’s vile comments and reached retired to Diane astatine the clip to connection support. It’s simply incorrect to accidental that determination was immoderate program being pushed by the enactment to unit her out. We proceed to worth Diane’s important publication to nationalist life.’

During the enquiry into Abbott’s ‘anti-semitic’ comments, successful which she suggested Jewish, Irish and Traveller radical were not taxable to racism ‘all their lives’, Abbott said she felt ‘low and depressed’.

‘I deliberation that Keir Starmer wanted to decorativeness his clear-out of the near successful the parliamentary Labour Party and by penning a precise ill-advised letter, I gave him the accidental to determination against me,’ she told BBC.

‘And I deliberation what they were trying to bash was to drawstring retired and drawstring retired the investigation.

‘So erstwhile a wide predetermination is astir the corner, they could conscionable determination maine retired of the mode arsenic a Labour campaigner due to the fact that I wouldn’t beryllium successful the parliamentary Labour Party, and they would parachute successful determination else.’

Starmer yet allowed Abbott to basal for the Labour party, aft ample crowds gathered to protestation against the racism and hatred against Abbott.

Banners declaring: ‘Racism is extremism’; ‘freedom is simply a changeless struggle’; ‘refugees welcome’; ‘say nary to Islamophobia’; and ‘stamp retired antisemitism, yes to diversity’ were held by the demonstrators successful March.

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