The Latest Breaking News from Diane Abbott

Natalie Elphicke is the third Conservative MP to defect to Labour since the last election – but the first Tory rightwinger. She had enthusiastically backed Brexit, and was a member of the eurosceptic European Research Group of Conservative MPs. She has attacked Labour’s “softness on immigration” and harshly criticised trade…

Anneliese Dodds drew the short straw and was sent out to pretend Nat had always been Labour through and through

Al Jazeera said it will pursue available legal channels to protect its journalists from Israel’s ‘slanderous’ shutdown.

An absorbing study of the radical left makes a convincing case for their cultural victories but romanticises the Jeremy Corbyn years

General election candidates include Monty Panesar but party says it will not stand against Corbyn or Abbott if they run as independents

Richard Holden says Hester apologised for remarks about Diane Abbott and ‘we should accept that’

Kate Osamor issued an apology for ‘any offence caused’ by a message she wrote on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day

There are now more independents suspended by their parties than Lib Dems in the House of Commons

LGBTQ+ festival organisers cut ties over businessman’s ‘alleged racist comments’ about Diane Abbott