The Conservative Party can’t win political capital by condemning Diane Abbott – they’re no better

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Diane Abbott has acknowledged that her letter was mistaken (PA)

Diane Abbott was wrong to argue that Jewish people, Travellers and the Irish community do not experience racism in the same way Black people do. All of these communities experience racism on a daily basis.

But those in the Conservative Party trying to make political capital out of her error need to remember that their party is no better.

They are the party of the “hostile environment”, and the Windrush scandal. They are the party that plans to send vulnerable asylum-seekers to a camp in Rwanda and whose home secretary, Suella Braverman, has vilified these refugees as “invaders” and has habitually labelled the Albanian community as “criminals”.