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| General election live: Diane Abbott says she has been banned from standing for Labour at election - BBC News | General election live: Diane Abbott says she has been banned from standing for Labour at election - BBC News |
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| Joe Pike | |
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| "Although the whip has been restored, I am banned from standing as a Labour candidate." That's what Diane Abbott has told me. | |
| This intervention comes just hours after Labour’s chief whip contacted Abbott to restore the whip after more than a year’s suspension. | |
| One parliamentary ally of the Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP tells me that after decades of public service, Abbott should've been allowed to "retire with dignity". The confused choreography of recent days does not seem to have achieved that. | |
| It's unclear whether the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party have made a final decision about Abbott’s position. | |
| The other unknown is whether she might follow the lead of her friend Jeremy Corbyn and stand as an independent candidate in her borough. | |
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