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| Labour's Kate Osamor resigns as shadow minister | Labour's Kate Osamor resigns as shadow minister |
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| A Labour frontbencher has quit her role to "support family" after events surrounding her son's drugs conviction. | A Labour frontbencher has quit her role to "support family" after events surrounding her son's drugs conviction. |
| Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor stepped down weeks after she was reported to Parliament's standards watchdog. | Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor stepped down weeks after she was reported to Parliament's standards watchdog. |
| Her son Ishmael Osamor, 29, previously admitted to having £2,500-worth of drugs at last year's Bestival event in Dorset. | |
| Ms Osamor's resignation follows allegations in a national newspaper. | |
| In a statement on Twitter, the Edmonton MP said it had been a "difficult time". | |
| "I remain fully committed to our programme for creating a society that works for the many, not the privileged few, and will continue to campaign for this from the backbenches," Ms Osamor added. | |
| Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn thanked Ms Osamor for bringing "a new dimension" to her role as a shadow minister "by committing Labour to tackling global inequality as well as poverty". | |
| Ms Osamor's "integrity" was questioned when she continued to employ her son as a communications officer after he resigned as a local councillor. | |
| Ishmael Osamor was caught trying to take ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and cannabis into a festival in August 2017 - nine months before he was elected as a councillor for Haringey. | |
| Following his conviction he resigned from his cabinet post on the council, and later resigned as a councillor following pressure from opposition groups. |