to the generals, we want to thank you for to the generals, we want to thank you for ensuring peace and stability during you for ensuring peace and stability during voting and we must also thank the home during voting and we must also thank the home affairs staff and officials who ensured that as many voters as possible who ensured that as many voters as possible had their identity documents on election day. thank you very n1ucir documents on election day. thank you very much to documents on election day. thank you very much to you as well. applause i would also like to extend our national i would also like to extend our national gratitude to the independent candidates and leaders and members of various political parties and members of various political parties that participated in the elections. i wish to thank all the elections. iwish to thank all the iocei elections. i wish to thank all the local and elections. i wish to thank all the local and international
am the adopted labour candidates for acne north and stoke newington and i intends to run and win as labour s candidate. hackney north and stoke newington. let s speak to political correspondent jack fenwick. what are the issues surrounding diane abbott and her candidacy? this row has been diane abbott and her candidacy? t i 3 row has been ongoing for months but has really been ongoing for the past few days, and this all goes back to a letter diane abbott wrote to the observer newspaper 14 months ago now and after that letter she was accused of anti semitism and said thatjewish people along with irish and traveller people didn t face racism all their lives and after that was published she apologised very quickly and was suspended from the parliamentary labour party pending an investigation and if you are someone that has been suspended, if you are suspended when an election is happening, you can t run again as a labour candidate so we