The Latest Breaking News from Diane Abbott

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

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

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

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

We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

What, exactly, has Diane Abbott said that’s so wrong – wrong enough to get her suspended (again) from the Labour Party? Her observation, that the prejudice that Travellers or Jewish people encounter – or indeed redheads – is different from the racism that black people experience seems like a statement…

LABOUR MPs have rallied around their veteran colleagues Diane Abbott after she was suspended by the party again.

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP has said: ‘It is obvious this Labour leadership wants me out’

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Votes at 16 has grown from a niche concern to become a salient issue supported by most UK political parties and electoral reform groups

Treasury minister James Murray said Abbott’s claim that ‘this Labour leadership wants me out’ was ‘absolutely not the case’