By Ben Kerrigan-
Chuka Umunna has gone on the attack against the Labour party in a media interview with the London Evening Standard. The former Labour MP condemned the party he has spent years in, addressing “nasty, bullying and racist behaviour” in the Labour Party amid a furious public row with Diane Abbott.
The former Labour Mp who broke away from the party to join an independent group, hit out after Ms Abbott, the shadow home secretary, questioned his commitment to race equality and other forms of equality. Angry Umunna expressed his anger in an interview with the Standard: “It is, in part, precisely because of the nasty, bullying, racist behaviour of a significant number of Labour members, and the leadership’s collective failure to deal with it, that I left the party.”
The Streatham MP told the Standard: “Above all my constituency, which scored the highest Remain vote in the country, elected an MP that would fight Brexit which is what I am doing and why the overwhelming majority of correspondence from constituents has supported me going independent – the Labour Party’s leadership wants to facilitate Brexit which is not acceptable to those I represent.”
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Ms Abbott launched her first attack last weekend after presiding over a Labour campaign to unseat Mr Umunna at an event organised by left-wing group Momentum. She spoke to hundreds of activists at Streatham Common, stating: “Our task is to get the people in this part of South London…to get them their Labour MP back.
“They need a Labour MP that will fight for equalities, race equality, gender equality, LGBTQ+ equality in a way that Chuka is not standing up for.”.
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