Diane Abbott gets cold feet about Ken Livingstone

Ken Livingstone has been the talk of the Commons today after he took to the airwaves to defend Naz Shah over her anti-Semitic posts. Since then he has been suspended after several Labour MPs urged their leader to take action.

So, what’s Diane Abbott been doing to help the cause? While the MP for Hackney North stayed quiet on the row this morning, she has busied herself by deleting past supportive tweets about Red Ken from the internet.

Abbott appears to not want members of the public to know that she was once on friendly terms with Livingstone. After Livingstone’s suspension was announced, the ‘Tweets MPs Delete’ Twitter account started displaying old tweets from Abbott which are supportive of Livingstone:

While it’s not so surprising that Abbott would wish to try and erase evidence of her support for her old comrade, perhaps what’s more curious is that she appears to now be on a deleting spree in general. Among her other deleted tweets are several about Corbyn.