The first black woman to be elected to parliament, Ms. Abbott, was expelled from the party last year for allegedly claiming in a letter to The Guardian that prejudice against Jews is not exclusive to them and that it is instead experienced by “redheads”
Although she issued an apology soon after it was released, she continued to serve as an independent member of parliament for over a year while the national executive committee of her party conducted its inquiry.
She went on to say that it is accurate to hear that the Labour leadership has decided she will never again run for office.
If Ms. Abbott would run as an independent, that has not been verified.
On social media, she later posted, “I am very dismayed that numerous reports suggest I have been barred as a candidate.”
“At this stage in the general election cycle, they can just parachute in a candidate, and there is nothing the local party can do,” a Labour Party insider told the News.
In the nearby Islington North, her close friend and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was first suspended and later barred from the Labour Party due to an antisemitism controversy, is running as an independent.
