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
of that process and continue her 37 year career as an mp. that nec meeting. remember diane abbott is the first female black elected mp in this country and she is seen as a trailblazer bike many people, the word a lot of people in that labour party have been using to describe her in the past few days and she is also a real sort of titanic figure of the labour left and has been for many years. seen as a trailblazer by many people. she was a senior member ofjeremy corbyn s shadow cabinet team and has been critical of labour leaderships including keir starmer s from the left of the party and this had for a long time been taking attention away from the sort of things labour wanted to talk about, from their policy announcement and the campaign trail itself and we may now finally have an answer and that answer is that diane abbott does indeed intend to stand as a labour candidate for this election. . ~ stand as a labour candidate for this election. . ,, , ., ., . stand as a labour candi