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As our correspondent Nick Eardley reported earlier (see 14:16 BST post), the Diane Abbott row is somewhat overshadowing today's Labour campaign. Also in Scotland, former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon says she'll be on the campaign trail - but refuses to answer a question about whether she'll be seen alongside Scottish First Minister John Swinney.
Now, Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden says Keir Starmer has “clearly been lying to people” about Abbott's status within the party. It comes a month after Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell was charged by police with embezzling funds from the SNP.
Holden says that because Starmer sits on Labour’s National Executive Committee, he knows the full picture. Sturgeon, Scotland's former and longest-serving FM, tells reporters she'll support candidates where necessary "from time to time" ahead of the vote.
“The idea that he didn’t know what was going Pressed on whether she'll campaign alongside Swinney, she says of her former deputy: "John will have his own programme and I will campaign in ways that I think are helpful to candidates."
on is clearly nonsense,” Holden says. Sturgeon was arrested in June last year when she voluntarily arranged with Police Scotland to be questioned as part of the investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP. She was released without charge.
As we reported earlier, Starmer told broadcasters that “no decision
has been taken to bar Diane Abbott”.
Read a full recap of the row here.
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