Last general election: Starmer 'furious' at secret Abbott briefing as SNP attacks 'chaotic' Tories

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Sir Keir Starmer was “furious” at “anonymous” briefings against Diane Abbott, his biographer has said.

Reports last week claimed that veteran left winger Ms Abboott had been banned from running again in her London constituency.

But the Labor leader later confirmed that Ms Abbott, the UK's first black female parliamentarian, United, would be free to run under the party banner in the general election. election if she wanted to.

“It’s still a ‘work source’ when that person could have been a number of people in a number of places,” he said to her biographer Tom Baldwin, in an article published in The Observer.

On Sunday evening, Ms Abbott said she was running for Labor.

Elsewhere, Scottish First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney said voters wanted to end the "chaotic" Tory government as he launched his party's campaign at an event in Glasgow.

“I am here to give everything I have, to ensure the best future for our country. » said the new party leader.