Could Diane Abbott return to Labour?

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Katy Balls, Fraser Nelson and Isabel Hardman discuss Diane Abbott's suspension from the Labour party. Given her hasty apology, could Keir Starmer allow such a key figure to Labour's left back into the party? Also on the podcast, what has been the fallout from Dominic Raab's resignation? And how is Rishi Sunak trying to woo business leaders?

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0:18.9	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,
0:20.4	suspect haters daily politics podcast.
0:22.5	I'm Katie Balls, and I'm driving for Isabel Hardman and Fraser Nelson.
0:25.6	Now on Friday, we are talking about the departure of Dominic Ra.
0:29.3	And we will get to the full out from the former Deputy Prime Minister Resignation,
0:33.8	and of course his successor.
0:35.6	But before we do, it's actually another politician
0:38.5	and their potential departure, which is now dominating the news, Diane Abbott.
0:42.6	Isabel, can you just fill us in on what happened on Sunday?
0:45.3	It was a letter to the observer written by the former Shadowhomes Secretary.
0:49.1	Did not appear on the front of the observer, but quickly did lead the news.
0:54.2	Yeah, it was quite a curious one.
0:56.4	As you say, it was not something that was particularly flagged by the observer themselves,
1:01.4	but she was writing a piece,
1:02.7	objecting to a common piece that had been in the observer about racism.
1:09.1	And her argument in this letter was that people who were not visibly ethnic minorities,
1:17.4	so people who were Jewish, Irish, travellers and so on,
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