Keir Starmer has condemned comments made by Labour MP Diane Abbott in a widely criticised letter published in the Observer as 'antisemitic.'
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The Labour leader said any decision on whether Abbott would stand as an MP for the party would be taken after an investigation. Starmer said: 'We should be talking about the cost of living today. There are many people today who can't afford the basic food they need or their energy bills ... So of course I'm disappointed that we're talking about antisemitism.'

Writing in the Observer on Sunday, Abbott said Jewish, Traveller and Irish people were 'not all their lives subject to racism'. Abbott wrote: 'In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships'.

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