Labour accused of 'toxic culture' in Birmingham by S_Fleary1
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party was also rocked by another serious race row e, when Marcia Hutchinson, who represented Ancoats and Beswick, resigned from the town hall after just six months.
Ms Hutchinson says she was subjected to racism and a “bullying pile-on” by white colleagues in the Labour group. Over the weekend Diane Abbott MP for Hackney and Stoke Newington took to Twitter to reveal she had not been invited to the party’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Members’ Event sessions.
Writing on Twitter, she said: “I have not been invited. Maybe @UKLabour HQ do not know that I am black.” Black, Asian and minority ethnic members faced multiple barriers to get into the position of councillor. One member said they faced “one hurdle after another” to become a councillor, whereas some colleagues had been “shipped in”. They suggested: “If I wasn’t BAME then it would have been a different story.”
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