Diane Abbott is “free to stand” as a Labour candidate in the general election, Keir Starmer has said. The news comes four days after it was revealed that the Labour party had concluded an investigation in December into controversial remarks Abbott had made, and that she had completed the required antisemitism training in February, but the party had not decided whether or not to readmit her. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington was suspended from the party last year after she suggested in a letter to the Observer that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people experienced prejudice, but not...