Minister reacts to Diane Abbott's suspension

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The exchequer secretary to the Treasury has said Diane Abbott's Labour suspension should be resolved as swiftly as possible. James Murray said there is a process underway to investigate the comments made by Ms Abbott about racism. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00What's happened is that Diane has been administratively suspended whilst there is an

00:04investigation into comments that she's made that have been broadcast in recent days. Now

00:08the Labour Party has processes for handling issues like this and whilst matters are being

00:13looked into the relevant person is administratively suspended whoever they are. That's what's happened

00:19in this case and what we all want I think is for this matter to conclude swiftly. This is a matter

00:25for the Chief Whip and for the process which is now underway to look at the comments that Diane made

00:30and that process needs to play out and actually you know it's really important for Ministers like

00:34myself and other MPs not to pass their own comment on what Diane Abbott said because there is a process

00:40underway now which we need to respect and let it come to its own conclusion.

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