Sir Keir Starmer has denied he is targeting left-wingers within Labour after Diane Abbott had the whip suspended following comments about racism. The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP suggested Jewish, Irish and Traveller people are not subject to racism “all their lives”. It comes weeks after the National Executive Committee backed a proposal from Sir Keir not to endorse former leader Jeremy Corbyn to contest Islington North for Labour at the next election. Ms Abbott said in a letter in The Observer that although white people “with points of difference” experience prejudice, they do not suffer the same racism...