Obvious working management wants me out, says Diane Abbott BBC

In her interview with Naughtie, which was recorded in May, she said: “There is clearly a difference between racism that deals with color and other types of racism because they can see a traveler or a Jewish person who goes along the street.

“You don't know unless you stop talking to you, or you are in a meeting with you.

“But when you see that a black person walks along the street, you can see immediately that you are black. They are different types of racism.”

She added: “I just think that it is silly to try to say that racism deals with other types of racism.”

Abbott posted a clip online in her BBC interview after messages were created about their lock and only wrote: “This is the clip of my interview.”

The latest suspension means that the MP of Hackney North and Stoke Newington will sit as an independent MP who loses losing the whip until an examination of its comments.

Labor said it would not comment “while this investigation has not yet been completed”.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told the Guardian newspaper: “There is no place for anti -Semitism in the Labor Party, and obviously the Labor Party has processes for this.

“Diane had thought about how she had put together this article and said that 'not the version should not be' and now double and say: 'Well, actually I didn't mean that. I actually said what I originally said.

Former Labor Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell wrote on X to defend his colleagues.

He said: “Before people, including spokesman for the Labor Party, comment or decide Diane Abbott's fate, I could suggest that you actually hear Dianes interview about BBC reflections in which you undoubtedly condemn anti -Semitism and discuss the different forms of racism.”

In her BBC interview, Abbott was asked whether she would condemn the anti -Semitic behavior in the same way as it would racist behavior against someone because of the color of her skin.

She replied: “Well, of course and I am a little tired of people who tried to capture the anti -Semitic label on me because I fought for a lifetime against racism of all kinds and especially against anti -Semitism, partly because of the nature of my constituency.”

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington deputy is the longest -reigning female MP in the Commons, who joined Parliament in 1987.

She said she was “grateful” to be a Labor MP in the BBC interview, but she was sure that the party leadership “tried to get me out”.

Listen to James Naughie's interview with Diane Abbott about BBC Sounds.