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LONDON: The UK’s main opposition Labour Party suspended Diane Abbott as a Member of Parliament (MP) last week, pending an investigation into comments she made that Jewish people were not subject to racism “all their lives.”
Abbott said in a letter to the Observer newspaper that Irish, Jewish and Traveller (Roma) people all “experience prejudice” similar to that suffered by “white people with points of difference, such as redheads. But they are not all their lives subject to racism.” “At the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships,” she added.
Labour Party immediately announced that Abbott had been suspended from its parliamentary party. Abbott later tweeted that she wanted to “wholly and unreservedly withdraw my remarks,” saying that an initial draft of the letter had been sent in error.
