‘A Woman Like Me’: a likeable, eye-opening and candid insight into a Labour icon
Diane Abbott’s A Woman Like Me starts with a picture of the author as a toddler alongside her…
Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott: Mother of the House calls for recall of parliament amid UK riots
A veteran left wing Labour MP has urged the recalling of parliament from summer recess amid the ongoing…
Abbott becomes Mother of the House and Hoyle back as Speaker as MPs meet
Diane Abbott has become Mother of the House – the title given to the longest continuously serving female…
Seven Slough councillors quit Labour over Shaheen, Abbott and Gaza
Seven councillors in Slough have resigned from Labour, citing grievances over the treatment of Faiza Shaheen and Diane…
Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer ‘forced to back down’ as he says she’s ‘free’ to stand
Keir Starmer has said that veteran MP Diane Abbott is “free to go forward as a Labour candidate”,…
‘Poll leads mean Starmer thinks he can afford to ruthlessly reshape Labour’
Keir Starmer may proclaim himself as a socialist, and Rachel Reeves a social democrat, but whether Diane Abbott…
Shaheen’s lawyers challenge Labour deselection as she claims ‘bullying culture’ and ‘problem with brown people’
Lawyers for the former Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen have written to the party challenging her de-selection, as she…
Suspended, expelled, quit: Who are the MPs sitting without the Labour whip?
A string of MPs elected to represent the Labour Party in 2019 are currently sitting as independents. This…
Corbyn and Webbe run as independents as Starmer grilled on Abbott suspension
Jeremy Corbyn will run as an independent candidate at the general election, the former party leader has confirmed,…
The Searchers by Andy Beckett: ‘A vivid profile of left MPs, down but not out’
Andy Beckett’s new book is, he writes in the introduction, “the story of a group of political explorers…
