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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

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2025

OPINION - What, exactly, has Diane Abbott said that’s so wrong?

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…

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2025

Minister slaps down Diane Abbott's claim that Labour chiefs want her out after sparking new racism row

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

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2025

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‘Not true’ that Labour wants Diane Abbott out, minister says

Exchequer secretary to the Treasury James Murray said it was ‘absolutely not the case’ that Number 10 had wanted Ms Abbott to out of the party.

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2025

Diane Abbott says Keir Starmer ‘wants me out’ after second suspension over race row

The Labour veteran has been suspended again after repeating a claim she made in 2023 about racism

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025

Diane Abbott: Labour ‘wants me out’ after second suspension

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP has been suspended for a second time after repeating a claim she made in 2023 about racism.

Evening Standard · Jul 17, 2025

Governments have the right to expect MPs to support their decisions

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If anything, given the sheer size of the rebellion on social security – 130 of his own MPs threatening to defeat a government bill – Keir Starmer has been too lenient

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025

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Diane Abbott suspended again by the Labour Party over race row letter

Veteran MP said in a BBC interview on Thursday that she stood by a 2023 letter comparing racism experienced by people of colour with that seen by other groups

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025

Diane Abbott suspended from Labour after racism comments

Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party, it has been confirmed

The National (Scotland) · Jul 17, 2025

MP Diane Abbott suspended from Labour Party over comments about racism

Ms Abbott was suspended in 2023 after writing a letter to the Observer comparing racism experienced by people of colour with that of other groups.

Evening Standard · Jul 17, 2025

What happened the last time a Labour government opted to lower the voting age?

There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.

Evening Standard · Jul 17, 2025

Jess Phillips agrees the economy ‘isn’t going well’ and it will take time before people feel ‘less skint’

The Home Office minister said the latest rise in unemployment figures were ‘disappointing’

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025

Diane Abbott facing suspension from Labour again after expressing ‘no regrets’ over race row letter

Abbott was suspended by the Labour Party in 2023 after a letter comparing different forms of racism but was readmitted a year later.

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025

Diane Abbott is suspended from Labour for a second time after she doubles down on racism comments

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP was previously suspended by the Labour Party in 2023

Evening Standard · Jul 17, 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2025

Signs of new life: is the British left making a comeback?

Talk of a new party led by Jeremy Corbyn is just the latest example of a growing clamour for leftwing alliances

The Conversation · Jul 11, 2025

What would it take for a new British leftwing party to succeed?

Last week, the MP for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana, made an audacious decision. Having already lost the Labour party whip for opposing the two-child benefit cap, Sultana announced she would co-lead a new leftwing party with Jeremy Corbyn, who was expelled from Labour in 2024.

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2025

Unite votes to suspend Angela Rayner’s membership over Birmingham bins dispute

Unite has also voted to ‘re-examine its relationship with Labour’, in a sign of a growing divide between the union and the party.

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2025

Labour in clash with unions as Unite suspends Rayner’s membership and says party is not on side of workers

General secretary Sharon Graham said the deputy prime minister ‘has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute’ over Birmingham’s bin strike

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The National (Scotland) · Jul 8, 2025

Jonathon Shafi: What they call chaos is a new left demanding justice

THE mere thought of a “new party of the left” sent many into a kind of meltdown

The National (Scotland) · Jul 7, 2025

Anas Sarwar 'must cut ties' to Tony Blair think tank linked to 'sickening' Gaza plan

ANAS Sarwar and Keir Starmer have been urged to cut ties to Tony Blair’s think tank after revelations regarding its presence when a plan was…

The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2025

Corbyn and Sultana’s new breakaway party will only boost Nigel Farage, Neil Kinnock warns

Lord Kinnock said the new party should be called the ‘Farage assistance group’

Evening Standard · Jul 5, 2025

Steve Coogan says ‘disappointing’ Labour year will ‘pave the way’ for Reform UK

The 59-year old actor and comedian reportedly supported the Labour party until last year, when he backed the Green Party.

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2025

Steve Coogan claims Keir Starmer’s Labour will ‘pave the way’ for Reform UK

‘Alan Partridge’ star claimed Labour are ‘putting Band-Aids on the gash in the side of the Titanic’

The Conversation · Jul 4, 2025

In search of Labour’s ‘working people’ – the paradox at the heart of Keir Starmer’s first year in power

It’s one year since Keir Starmer led the Labour party to a landslide victory. Starmer’s manifesto, “Change” had proposed “securonomics” as a solution to the UK’s many crises. This was sold as a way of ensuring “sustained economic growth as the only route to improving the prosperity of our country…

Evening Standard · Jul 4, 2025

Minister shrugs off ex-Labour MP’s announcement of new political party

Zarah Sultana said she would ‘co-lead the founding of a new party’ with Jeremy Corbyn.

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