‘Damned if we do and damned if we don’t in the Labour Party!’ Steven Pound defends request to lift the whip on Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott has confronted Sir Keir Starmer and told him to give her the Labour whip back to show solidarity over the Tory donor racism row.

Steven Pound has defended her request saying that the Labour Party are "damned if they do and damned if the don't."

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