Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Diane Abbott, who was elected as the UK’s first black female MP in 1987, is now sitting as an independent after having the Labour whip suspended. The disciplinary action follows a letter published in the Observer on 23 April in which she suggested Jewish people do not face racism, but instead suffer prejudice similar to “redheads”. The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP, who served as Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow home secretary, was responding to an article in the previous week’s Observer by Tomiwa Owolade, which argued that, in Abbott’s words, “Irish, Jewish and Traveller people...