Diane Abbott

How should Labour deal with fundamental disagreements over policy? And what should be the appropriate use us discipline measures?

Diane Abbott and Joani Reid have both had the Labour whip restored and have been readmitted as Labour MPs. Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Mother of the House, was suspended for a second time last summer after saying…

Mother of the House Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party after defending her comments about racism.

Labour Party representatives like Gwynne must treat Labour supporters, including black supporters, with respect even when they think that nobody is listening.

Diane Abbott’s A Woman Like Me starts with a picture of the author as a toddler alongside her family. She is striding forward and pointing a finger in the air, and, the older Abbott tells us, “nobody in that photograph looks more…

A veteran left wing Labour MP has urged the recalling of parliament from summer recess amid the ongoing violent far-right riots gripping the country.

Diane Abbott has become Mother of the House – the title given to the longest continuously serving female MP – as the Parliament elected last week convened to elect a Speaker.

Seven councillors in Slough have resigned from Labour, citing grievances over the treatment of Faiza Shaheen and Diane Abbott as well as the party's stance on the war in Gaza.

Diane Abbott has declared she intends to "run and win" as the "adopted Labour candidate" in Hackney North and Stoke Newington, as the national executive committee prepares to sign off candidates this week. Her situation was thrust into the…

Keir Starmer has said that veteran MP Diane Abbott is “free to go forward as a Labour candidate”.

Jon Lansman argues the blocking of two women of colour, Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen, as Labour candidates would "greatly inflame divisions within the party and alienate voters".

Stuart Thomson argues: Can Starmer really be seen to back down on Diane Abbott, or would that now make him look weak?