All news on the topic: Diane Abbott

Over 60 MPs and Lords have demanded answers regarding illegal shipments of weaponry from Britain to Israel via Belgium.

I don’t understand why the Labour Party is getting so excited about Andy Burnham. Because until now, it’s never been that bothered.

The Metropolitan Police is investigating alleged hate crimes at both major protests in London as officers are still searching for seven suspects from the pro-Palestine Nakba Day rally.

Keir Starmer has walked off the stage after wrapping up a speech some had billed as the most important of his political life.

Reports that Labour figures have been informally canvassing possible replacements for Diane Abbott in Hackney North and Stoke Newington have provoked criticism that the party is deciding her fate before...

Counter-terrorism police report that two women and two men have been detained following damage inflicted on two Voyager aircraft.

Diane Abbott has condemned the participants in a group chat that mocked her and other Labour colleagues – which has led to two of the party’s MPs being suspended.

Donation came after Rishi Sunak condemned businessman’s remark that Diane Abbott made you ‘want to hate all black women’

Black MP Bernie Grant also spied on, with secret Met reports claiming he made ‘inflammatory’ speeches

MP Diane Abbott has sat as an independent since April last year after Labour withdrew the whip following comments over the Jewish, Irish and Traveller communities

Michael Gove said the Muslim Association of Britain, Cage and Mend and the neo-nazi British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative will be assessed for extremism

It’s understood Frank Hester has donated another £5million to the Tories since January - a figure the Tories did not deny - on top of the £10million he had already handed the party

In a fiery PMQs exchange Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, and other MPs discussed a Tory donor's racist comments about Diane Abbott - but the veteran MP was not chosen to ask the PM a question

They wouldn’t begin to explain how I feel as not just a young woman, but a young Black woman. The attack on Diane Abbott was an attack on all Black women for just… existing, writes Serena Richards

Diane Abbott was not selected to ask a question during a fiery Prime Minister's Questions exchange that centred on racist comments made by a Tory donor about her

Conservative Minister Kevin Hollinrake made the extraordinary admission as the Government battles the move on from the row over Frank Hester's alleged comments about Diane Abbott

Businessman Frank Hester, who gifted the Tories £10million, allegedly said seeing Diane Abbott on TV made him 'want to hate all Black women' and that she should be 'shot'

The arrogance of the government spokesman trying to claim the remarks were not gender or race-based would be laughable if this wasn’t so serious, writes Darren Lewis

The PM earlier declined to say whether millionaire Frank Hester’s alleged comments that Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women' were racist - only that they were 'unacceptable'

Frank Hester, who is the Conservative Party's biggest donor, allegedly said looking at Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women' and that she 'should be shot'

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch is the most senior politician to say that Frank Hester's alleged comment that Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women' was 'racist'

The Prime Minister's official spokesman said the comments allegedly made by millionaire Tory donor Frank Hester were 'clearly unacceptable' but repeatedly refused to say whether they were racist

Good Morning Britain turned very fiery on Tuesday as hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls questioned Energy Minister Graham Stuart over a Tory party donor's alleged racist remarks towards Diane Abbott