Diane Abbott: Labour were determined to “get rid of me"

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Labour MP Diane Abbott has told ITV News' Ronke Phillips she believes her suspension from the Labour party over comments in an article was part of a plan to “get rid of her”.
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00:00Well, it was interesting that he was so flattering when he and people around him had gone to
00:07such lengths to get rid of me, but, you know, I allowed myself to be flattered.
00:12He's the leader of the party, you know, you, in the end, the leader of your party,
00:18you can't really take a view on them.
00:21Again, he's the leader of my party, you can't really take a view on the leader of your party.
00:27We were boyfriend and girlfriend momentarily.
00:30Jeremy is a great person, but his life is 99% politics, and I think I wasn't prepared
00:36to be the 1%.
00:38We were together, I even moved in with him for some time, but I started to whine and
00:42complain that we never went out anywhere.
00:44So Jeremy, he's a very kind person, he thought about it, and then one day he said, we're
00:50going out.
00:51And I thought, wow, and I got dressed, and we got in the car, and he drove, and I was
00:56like, oh, maybe we're going to go to a nice wine bar.
00:58Actually, he took me to Highgate Cemetery and showed me the tomb of Karl Marx.
01:04That was his idea of an outing.

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