Diane Abbott is suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism.
Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism for the Observer, the party has said.
The politician said "many types of white people with points of difference" can experience prejudice, in a letter published on Sunday.She later tweeted to say she was withdrawing her remarks and apologised "for any anguish caused". In the letter, she wrote: "In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus."And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships."
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