Diane Abbott has been accused of exploiting the deaths of 41 migrants in a shipwreck off Italy in a now-deleted tweet concerning the tragedy.
The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, who’s at the moment suspended from the parliamentary Labour Party, tweeted a hyperlink to an article concerning the deaths earlier right now, and wrote: “These migrants have indeed f***** off. To the bottom of the sea.”
Ms Abbott despatched the tweet at 3.33pm, and it was deleted simply over an hour later.
Forty-one migrants have been killed within the shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa in Italy after a big wave apparently flipped the vessel. There have been solely 4 survivors.
The former shadow house secretary’s feedback got here off the again of Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson’s controversial comment to Express.co.uk on Monday night – that if migrants don’t need to be housed on a barge, they need to “f*** off back to France”.
Ms Abbott had responded to Mr Anderson’s comment yesterday, calling them a “new low even for the Tories”, to which he replied that he had informed “illegal migrants to go back to France not genuine asylum seekers”.
However, right now’s remark provoked a right away backlash from X (previously referred to as Twitter) customers, and the Tory MP for Bassetlaw, Brendan Clarke-Smith, accused her and the Labour Party of “exploiting the tragedy” for political acquire.
He wrote: “And to think that Sir Keir Starmer campaigned for this person to be made our home secretary.
“We all know which you could’t take Labour severely on immigration or nationwide safety, however what a disgrace in addition they search to take advantage of tragedies like this to push their warped agenda.”
Mr Clarke-Smith’s response was endorsed by the Conservative Party when approached for remark.
Ms Abbott at the moment sits as an impartial MP after having had the whip suspended in April following remarks wherein she steered Jewish folks don’t face racism, however as an alternative undergo prejudice just like “redheads”.
She wrote a letter to The Observer newspaper, in response to an article which had the headline: “Racism in Britain is not black and white. It’s far more complicated.”
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Tory MP Lee Anderson’s ‘f*** off again to France’ remark reveals govt making an attempt to ‘distract from failings’, Labour says
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP stated she was responding to author Tomiwa Owolade’s claims that “Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from ‘racism'”.
The Labour Party referred to as her feedback “deeply offensive and wrong” and suspended her pending an investigation.
Ms Abbott and the Labour Party have been approached for remark.
Source: information.sky.com”