Diane Abbott has accused Keir Starmer of treating her like a “non-person” during the row over comments made by a Conservative Party donor.

MP Diane Abbott has claimed Sir Keir Starmer treated her as a ‘non-person’ after a Tory donor made racist comments about her. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington claimed she was treated badly during the fall out after Tory donor Frank Hester made racist comments about her last year.

The veteran MP, a close ally of former party leader Jeremy Corbyn , hit out at the Prime Minister and claimed he treated her as a 'non-person'.

Diane Abbott appeared on the ITV show Lorraine to discuss politics and dealing with racism as well as what it was like to date Jeremy Corbyn.

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Diane Abbott has accused Keir Starmer of treating her like “a non-person” during the row over a Tory donor saying she “should be shot”. Britain’s first black female MP received an outpouring of sympathy when Frank Hester’s comments emerged earlier this year.

Diane Abbott has thrown down the gauntlet to Sir Keir Starmer in a fresh nightmare for Labour after the Left-wing firebrand warned she could oppose the Government on key issues.The party whip was withdrawn from the Hackney MP in the last parliament for after she claimed Irish,