I have enormous respect for Diane Abbott, whose speech yesterday was magnificent.
In that spirit, and as a mixed-race person whom Hilary Armstrong, as Government Chief Whip, therefore refused to have as a District Council candidate in her constituency, I see Ms Abbott as the standing contradiction of the need for all-BAME shortlists, or indeed for the all-women shortlists that gave a grateful nation Jess Phillips.
The crises in representation are not in "race" or in sex, but in class and in political opinion.
In that spirit, and as a mixed-race person whom Hilary Armstrong, as Government Chief Whip, therefore refused to have as a District Council candidate in her constituency, I see Ms Abbott as the standing contradiction of the need for all-BAME shortlists, or indeed for the all-women shortlists that gave a grateful nation Jess Phillips.
The crises in representation are not in "race" or in sex, but in class and in political opinion.
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