12 hours later the labour leadership have lifted her suspension. but is she banned from standing as a labour candidate in this election? plus the conservatives say if they win the election they will now protect pensioners from their own future tax rises. are they neglecting young voters? welcome to election newsnight. we are live each weekday night at half past ten on bbc 2 and bbc news with interviews and insight. with me throughout the programme tonight labour mp dawn butler and former conservative chancellor kwasi kwarteng who, like around 76 of his tory colleagues, is standing down. first, let s bring you up to date with today s election stories starting with our exclusive that we broke this morning that the labour investigation into diane abbott over her comments on racism was finished five months ago. and tonight, the labour leadership have lifted thier suspension of ms abbott and restored the whip. nick s here. bring us up to date? as you said earlier this evening si
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brexit has been the great unmentionable so far in the selection. but tonight keir starmer called for closer ties with the eu. louisville just that and what can the party s social media campaigns tell us about the state of the race. good evening. welcome to newsnight, home to analysis and interviews. who would have imagined at the last election that the towering presence of brexit would hardly register as an issue half way through the next election campaign? it has not gone away as an issue, itjust seems to have been parked by all the main parties. ..for now. but tonight the labour leader, sir keir starmer, whose ming vase strategy started by saying as little as possible about britain s exit from the european union, has under the bbc s questioning given the fullest account of how a possible labour government would approach this thorny issue. we will be exploring that with the head of labour s pro european bloc, and the conservatives new approach to the election leaning in to d
whether those multiparty debates and five leaders was we already knew that it five leaders was we already knew thatitis five leaders was we already knew that it is particularly hard for labour because, and i m not trying to make excuses, it s not my labour lost that election, but, you know, the snp can just attack labour and call for scottish independence, which is completely reasonable, that s their position. lied, he could attack labour as their main opponent in wales, the more time spent talking about the snp or applied camry, the less time they are talked about david cameron, and more validating that big conservative argument at the time, look at these guys come it s going to be a coalition of chaos if they get in, and they are all bickering amongst themselves. plaid cymru. but he s being picked off from different angles from smaller parties. he didn t really care about the tories in the same way. something that might ve looked like a debate unfolding naturally and was