Credit: StoptheWarCoalitionAndy Burnham is facing a Labour Party backlash for reinstating Diane Abbott after the veteran Left-winger was accused of spreading "pro-Putin propaganda". Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementSome have accused their party's longest-serving MP of "spreading pro-Putin propaganda", telling Mr Burnham that she should no longer have an active role in public life. Ms Abbott, 72, has called Ukraine's defence of its territory and Western backing for it "a Nato campaign against Russia". A source on Labour's moderate wing added: "There is no Nato war on Russia, no Western conspiracy to invent a threat. Around the same time, she made a separate post on social media in which she referred to the Israel Defense Forces as the "Jewish Defence Force".