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Diane Abbott has declared she intends to run as a Labour candidate on the election and win.

The veteran Labour MP additionally denied she had been provided a seat within the Lords to face down.

She stated: “I am the adopted Labour candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington. I intend to run and to win as Labour’s candidate.”

On Friday, Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer stated Ms Abbot was “free” to face as a Labour candidate within the common election, after days of backwards and forwards about whether or not the veteran MP could be blocked.

He additionally praised her as a “trailblazer”, saying that after she was elected the primary black girl MP within the UK, she “carved a path for other people”.

The dramatic U-turn got here after Sir Keir’s deputy Angela Rayner stated Ms Abbott must be allowed to face within the seat she has represented since 1987 – in a break together with her celebration chief.

But a detailed ally of Ms Abbott hit out at what she denounced as a “sordid week of unauthorised anonymous briefings by overgrown schoolboys in suits with their feet on the table” who had watched “too much West Wing”.

Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti stated she had suggested her good friend to “take some time to consider what she wants to do”.

It got here as a senior Labour determine denied she had been provided a peerage to depart the Commons, amid claims of a left-wing purge.

In a tweet on Sunday, Ms Abbott stated: “I have never been offered a seat in the Lords, and would not accept one if offered.”

She added: “I am the adopted Labour candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington. I intend to run and to win as Labour’s candidate.”

Ms Abbott was given the Labour whip again final week, clearing the best way for her to face for the celebration. She had been suspended after she instructed Jewish, Irish and Traveller folks expertise prejudice however not racism, and had sat as an unbiased MP.

Reports in The Sunday Times stated plenty of former Labour MPs, together with Ms Abbott, have been provided peerages to give up and open up seats for allies of Sir Keir.

Shadow house secretary Yvette Cooper instructed Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on Sky News: “There’s a whole process with the independent committee that will vet nominations, there have to be processes in terms of the numbers of nominations, designated by the prime minister and so on.

“So, no party can do that or make those sorts of commitments.”

Earlier, Baroness Chakrabarti instructed BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg it had been a “sometimes sordid week of unauthorised anonymous briefings by overgrown schoolboys in suits with their feet on the table, maybe watching too much West Wing but not taking on its more progressive values”.

She added that “it’s been pretty appalling, trying to bully someone of her stature”, and “it’s not good for Keir Starmer’s leadership, it’s not good for the Labour Party, and it hasn’t been very nice for Diane and for common decency”.

She stated she had suggested her good friend to “take some time to consider what she wants to do”.