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Top Starmer aide quits over sexually explicit Diane Abbott messages

Paul Ovenden resigns from director of strategy role after ‘unacceptable’ messages sent in 2017 uncovered

The Independent UK

Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages

Departure of political strategy director Paul Ovenden is yet another setback for PM after Mandelson and Rayner exits

The Guardian - UK

Top Keir Starmer aide quits after sexual comments about Diane Abbott

ONE of Keir Starmer's top aides has quit after leaked messages revealed he made sexually explicit comments about veteran MP Diane Abbott ...

The National (Scotland)

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Senior Starmer aide quits over 'sexually explicit' messages about Diane Abbott in new blow to PM

Number 10’s Director of Strategy Paul Ovenden quits after emails he sent in 2017 emerge

Evening Standard

What I saw at Saturday’s rally was racism, pure and simple. Labour won’t tackle it until we can call it what it is

Silence about the bigotry inherent in events like Tommy Robinson’s march will be seen by the thugs as tacit approval of their message, says Labour MP Diane Abbott

The Guardian - UK

Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades

Tommy Robinson, Steve Bannon, Ant Middleton and Joey Mannarino among names to speak at London event

The Guardian - UK

Leading female politicians and artists reject attempts to link migration and sexual abuse

The letter accuses the right of exploiting ‘violence against women to fuel hate and division’

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Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse

Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’

The Guardian - UK

Farage insists women will be deported under Reform plan to remove 600,000 people

The Reform leader announced the plan saying that anyone arriving in the UK illegally would be detained and deported.

Evening Standard

Why Diane Abbott told Jeremy Corbyn not to set up new party

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The Independent UK

Diane Abbott: I advised Jeremy Corbyn not to start new party

MP predicts struggle under first past the post but understands why her longtime friend established party

The Guardian - UK

Diane Abbott: Why I won't be joining Jeremy Corbyn's new political party

Diane Abbott has confirmed she will not join Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party ...

The National (Scotland)

I told Jeremy Corbyn starting a new party was a bad idea, says Diane Abbott

The former shadow home secretary indicated she would not be joining Mr Corbyn’s new party

The Independent UK

Diane Abbott says she advised Jeremy Corbyn against founding his new political party

Ms Abbott, who was shadow home secretary under Mr Corbyn, said she thought the first-past-the-post system would work against the new party

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The Independent UK

Norwich City steward who accidentally sent memes to colleague wins £8,000 payout

The championship club sacked him for breaching its disciplinary policies, a decision described as ‘riddled with unfairness’

Evening Standard

‘Orwellian’ football club sacked steward for sending memes

Norwich City’s decision to sack the steward was ‘riddled with unfairness’, a tribunal found.

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s attempt to find successor to Diane Abbott ‘under way’

Exclusive: Contenders teed up for future contest, which MP says seems ‘to pre-empt results of investigation’

The Independent UK

Palestine Action ban ‘could become Starmer’s poll tax moment’ as freedom of speech row deepens

Baroness Chakrabarti said the proscription of the group risks exacerbating community tensions, and campaigners warned the ban was a threat to freedom of speech

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Daytime Emmy nominations are out, and I think the winner for the Supporting Actress category will be a two-peat for The Young and the Restless

With the 2025 Daytime Emmy nominations out, I think a star from The Young and the Restless will again claim victory in the supporting actress category.

The Guardian - UK

Labour should allow debate about racism

Letters: Why does Abbott pointing out an obvious truth about racism entail her suspension from Labour? Darcus Howe’s show Devil’s Advocate was a platform to discuss this, writes Farrukh Dhondy

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like clapping for the NHS’: Lionesses’ decision to stop taking the knee triggers debate

While some activists insist it remains a ‘powerful antiracist act’, others say the symbol has been stripped of value

The Guardian - UK

Difficult discussions on different types of racism

Letters: Readers on Diane Abbott’s suspension from the Labour party after she said in a radio interview that she had no regrets about previous remarks about racism

The National (Scotland)

SNP MPs in call for full arms embargo on Israel

SNP MPs have joined calls with more than 50 MPs for the UK Government to issue a full arms embargo on Israel

The Independent UK

Mother and daughter found dead three months after 999 call

An inquest into the deaths of Alphonsine Djiako Leuga and her 18-year-old daughter Loraine Choulla began on Monday

The Independent UK

Voices: Diane Abbott may not be right – but is she entirely wrong on race?

COMMENT: We need to have a grown-up conversation about racism, writes Ava Vidal – and I believe people are missing what the now partyless MP was actually trying to say

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