Day: June 3, 2024
NPR News: 06-03-2024 10PM EDT
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Keir Starmer once promised to lead a ‘broad church’ Labour party. After a week in which Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen have complained about their treatment, does that still hold true? Aletha Adu and Aditya Chakrabortty report
It’s been a torrid week for Labour. Back in April 2023, Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the UK parliament, was suspended from the party in a row over antisemitism. In the last few days a furore over whether she would or wouldn’t be reinstated, and would or wouldn’t be allowed to stand for re-election, reached boiling point.
At the same time, Faiza Shaheen, who had already started campaigning in Chingford and Woodford Green, was told she had been deselected. She said she had apologised for liking a tweet that played into an antisemitic trope, and believed she had done it mistakenly, but had been told her candidacy was being blocked. Helen Pidd hears how the pair are far from the only left-leaning MPs worried about their political future.
A jury was selected in Hunter Biden’s federal trial on gun charges with opening statements expected tomorrow morning. We break down the legal issues and the political stakes in this unprecedented prosecution of a sitting president’s child. Plus, chaos erupts as a Republican-led House panel grills Anthony Fauci about the Covid-19 pandemic.
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