diane abbott, is free to stand for election in her north london constituency. it follows days of wrangling over her future, following suspension from the party, over comments she made about how jewish, irish and traveller people, experience racism. she was re admitted to labour on wednesday. ms abbott has yet to say, if she ll stand. here s our political correspondent, helen catt. the story that s been rumbling on for most of this week has now come to a sort of conclusion after sir keir starmer said that diane abbott, a very long serving labour mp, she was the first black woman elected to parliament, is free to stand as a labour mp at this election. she had claimed she was being blocked by the party. so what we re waiting to hear from in the next few days is to hear from diane abbott herself. she hasn t commented publicly since sir keir starmer said this yesterday, so we re waiting to hear from her to confirm if she will indeed do so. the crucial thing, though, is that it is
being undermined by those trade deals that have been put in place. one of the asks in our manifesto is about the introduction of core standards, which would make it illegal to bring in that product which has been produced to lower standards than ourselves. we can t simply offshore our production and have this out of sight, out of mind, approach to food. question is, though, can farmers get a hearing in a busy general election? the question i put to a wiltshire farmer who s tried former nfu president minette batters. i think it s going to be difficult if i m honest. i think you know, such a short time frame and so much going on and certainly i m not hearing that much about food production or the countryside, really, from any party at the moment. they love old stuff here, but they want farming to thrive, not simply become a quaint piece of industrial heritage. dave harvey, bbc news. there s new data on an issue which is shaping up to be key this election campaign. a record number of mi
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