Hello and House Shops, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday roundup.

Questions over whether Diane Abbott has been banned from standing as a Labour candidate

were a distraction from Kirstam's campaign this week, eventually culminating in

Stama confirming Abbott was free to go forward for labour. Some in the Labour Party are unhappy

with the Kerestama welcoming Tory defectors while also suppressing left-wing

candidates such as Lord Russell Moil and Pfizer Shaheen, who were both barred from standing

for labour this week.

Speaking to Laura Koonsburg, Baroness Chacrabarti said the treatment

of Diane Abbott had been appalling.

I hope that she will now, after this sometimes sordid week of unauthorized anonymous briefings by overgrown

schoolboys in suits with their feet on the table and maybe watching too much

west wing but not taking on its more

progressive values I hope and by the way I hope they remember it's supposed to be

country first not faction first I hope she will take some time to consider, you know, what she wants to do and that's

literally what I've suggested to her as her friend and I hope that's what she's going to do.

So it sounds like there's very much still an open question and you're hinting there perhaps

that maybe she shouldn't?

No, no, no, not at all.

I just think it's,'s it's been pretty appalling you know trying to bully

Someone of her stature not just in the party I've been quite moved by some of the comments and the pieces

that have been written by Conservatives and others. Sia Devarsi wrote a really lovely piece

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