Labour officials will decide on Diane Abbott’s future, says shadow minister

Pat McFadden says views in letter were ‘deeply wrong’ and John Mann says it might be best if she quits

Diane Abbott’s local party and Labour officials will decide whether she can stand again at the next election, a shadow minister has said, after Abbott lost the Labour whip for comments about racism.

Abbott made comments suggesting that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism “all their lives”.