Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has described Diane Abbott's letter to The Observer newspaper yesterday suggesting that travellers, Jewish and Irish people do not face racism as "antisemitic".

He said: "What she wrote yesterday, I utterly condemn. And I said we would tear out antisemitism by its roots. I meant it, and that's why we acted so swiftly yesterday.

"I think it's a mark of how far the Labour Party has changed that we acted so swiftly and we take it so seriously. But I condemn what she said."

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