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Huma Abedin, the trusted aide at the centre of the Hillary Clinton email storm, spent the weekend holed up at her New York apartment, far from her troubled boss.

Speculation mounted that Clinton would be forced to sack Abedin or at least distance herself from her long-standing confidante in order to quell the storm surrounding the latest episode of the email scandal.

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While Clinton took to the stage in Florida, Abdedin – usually never far from the Democratic nominee’s side – was photographed staring glumly out of her Manhattan window.

Abedin told friends she had no idea how her emails ended up on a computer she had shared with her estranged husband Anthony Weiner, the former congressman accused of sending sexually explicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl. She said the computer was primarily used by Weiner.

Clinton has described Abedin as a “surrogate daughter” and leaned on her more than any other adviser during the gruelling campaign, and in her time as secretary of state.