Diane Abbott is still considering her future after being given the backing to stand as a Labour MP, her close friend Shami Chakrabarti has said, amid reports that Labour have offered peerages to MPs in order to stand down.
But a number of leftwing MPs told the Sunday Times that offers were made for them to give up their seats. Abbott was widely expected byMPs to announce her retirement and be given a peerage, until a Labour source briefed last week that she would be banned from standing and Abbott said she still intended to fight to be a candidate.
“I hope she will take some time to consider what she wants to do. And that’s what I’ve suggested to her as a friend and I hope that’s what she’s going to do.”
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