THERE is no more pressing issue for the left right now than expressing practical solidarity with Diane Abbott over her shameful and racist treatment by the Starmer apparatus in the Labour Party.

She has stated this week that she no longer expects to get a fair hearing from Labour over her suspension, which has already gone on for several months.

The newspaper letter which led to the sanction was certainly wrong. Not only are Jewish people exposed to racism, they have historically suffered the very worst manifestations of it in the Nazi genocide.