Diane Abbott – Labour will have ‘zero tolerance’ of sexual harassment
The Shadow Home Secretary joined Andrew Marr to discuss, among other things, the allegations that have been surfacing about sexual harassment in the House of Commons. Marr bought up the recent case of Jared O’Mara, the Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam who appears to have disgraced himself after several online comments were unearthed:
AM: Jared O’Mara – when did the Labour party know about what he’d said?
DA: When I heard about it was last Monday. He came to the PLP, he apologised, a lot of people took his apology quite seriously. But then on Tuesday we had more information. On Wednesday he was suspended and the Labour party is looking at it, there’s going to be an investigation.
AM: Because there was a text that suggests the Labour party were told about this a month ago and didn’t do anything.
DA: I don’t know anything about that.
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