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The Latest Breaking News from Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott still weighing up whether to stand for Labour, ally says, amid peerage offer claim

Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti said she had advised her friend to ‘take some time to consider what she wants to do’

The Independent UK

Diane Abbott says she intends to ‘run and win’ as Labour candidate

Party veteran says she has never been offered Lords seat and would not accept if offered

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: SNP’s Swinney warns general election will be ‘the biggest challenge for years’ – as it happened

New leader tells activists in Glasgow that they must demonstrate the ‘relevance’ of independence to the cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

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Diane Abbott says she 'intends to run' as Labour’s candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington

Labour contender denies being offered a peerage

Evening Standard

Starmer on Abbott: ‘I’ve actually got more respect for Diane than she probably realises’

The veteran leftwinger is ‘not like other candidates’, and the row over her did not arise as a result of party purges, Labour’s leader tells his biographer on the campaign trail

The Guardian - UK

Starmer vows to curb migration as Sunak makes community care offer

The Labour leader proposes a ban on law-breaking employers from hiring foreign workers.

Evening Standard

Labour's left-wing purge may cause back bench rebellion, say experts

A BACKLASH from Labour backbenchers is predicted if the party take power, despite the apparent purge of left-wing MPs and leftist would-be…

The National (Scotland)

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Labour and Conservative battlebuses hit the road, but ‘lonely figure’ Sunak seems like a solo traveller

Keir Starmer launched his campaign bus on Saturday with his senior shadow cabinet members, but Tory ‘big beasts’ appeared to have deserted the PM in Redcar

The Guardian - UK

Sunak suffers poll blow as levelling-up cash-for-votes row erupts

New poll gives Labour its biggest lead since Liz Truss meltdown as ‘Tory towns’ gain most from new funds

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve dealt with that’: Keir Starmer dodges questions about Diane Abbott

Rishi Sunak said it was ‘clear’ Angela Rayner is in charge as allies deny the Labour leader was bounced into a decision

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer says wealth creation is his ‘number one mission’

Labour leader says UK public dislike ‘extremes of left or right’ in politics and promises to take centre ground

The Guardian - UK

Sunak pledges cash to towns as Starmer pitches ‘wealth creation’ amid election campaign

The Prime Minister has gone viral on TikTok for being cornered by a student, while Sir Keir Starmer fought discontent over candidate selection.

Evening Standard

Diane Abbott might now be allowed to stand as a Labour MP, but the damage is done – and it’s deep

Keir Starmer will need broad support to undertake a ‘decade of renewal’ in office. This sordid episode suggests he won’t have it, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Election diary: Tory campaign going exactly as planned, say Tories

With the Tories’ chances at near zero, Labour is concentrating on fighting an ideological ground war with itself

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Former Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen says she does not think “there’s any way back” for her into the party

The former candidate addressed a rally in northeast London on Friday.

The Independent UK

Labour MP selections: Who’s in and who’s out amid Abbott and Shaheen row

Several left-wing Labour candidates have been barred from standing at the general election

The National (Scotland)

Labour MP hopeful told Scots to vote Conservative in General Election

A LABOUR candidate urged Scots to vote Conservative in the General Election, The National can reveal ...

Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer is ruthlessly remaking Labour in his own image – even if Diane Abbott is 'free' to run

Long-standing readers will know that this newsletter takes a dim view of knee-jerk comparisons between UK and US politics. Yes, America is a big, powerful and frankly weird place and we should absolutely not be strangers. But as liberal democracies go, our two nations could scarcely be more different.

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The Independent UK

UK's first Black female lawmaker 'free' to stand for Labour at election after row over her future

The U.K.’s first Black female member of parliament will be allowed to stand for the Labour Party in the upcoming general election, leader Keir Starmer says, following a fractious few days over her political future

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer says Diane Abbott 'free' to stand as a Labour candidate amid row

DIANE Abbott is “free” to stand as a Labour candidate in the General Election, Keir Starmer has said after growing tensions in the party over…

The Independent UK

Starmer says Diane Abbott is ‘free’ to stand for Labour in next election, in U-turn

It comes after a row about whether Diane Abbott would be blocked from running for the Labour Party on 4 July

The Guardian - UK

Starmer admits he flew by private jet to clean energy jobs rally in Scotland

Labour leader says it was ‘most efficient form of transport’ from Wales and party has offset the carbon

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Donald Trump's guilty verdict is that rare political phenomenon – it is unprecedented

The term ‘unprecedented’ is misused almost as frequently as ‘literally’. But the news last night that former US president Donald Trump had been found guilty on all 34 charges, including the use of falsified business records to conceal payments over an alleged affair with the porn star Stormy Daniels, is…

The Guardian - UK

Power-drunk and arrogant: if this is how Starmer’s Labour treats its MPs, what will his party be like in power?

Labour’s purge of Faiza Shaheen and Diane Abbott increases my fear about how it will behave in office, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Evening Standard

The turbulent career of Diane Abbott: from first black female MP to shunned by Labour

Will she, won’t she? The Hackney MP is causing ruptures within the Labour party. Robbie Griffiths charts her remarkable — and often rocky — political career

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