The veteran Labour MP says she felt at risk after Frank Hester’s comments and expected more support from the Labour leader

Diane Abbott has thrown down the gauntlet to Sir Keir Starmer in a fresh nightmare for Labour after the Left-wing firebrand warned she could oppose the Government on key issues.The party whip was withdrawn from the Hackney MP in the last parliament for after she claimed Irish,

The veteran MP, a close ally of former party leader Jeremy Corbyn , hit out at the Prime Minister and claimed he treated her as a 'non-person'.

Starmer ‘treated me as a non-person’ during Tory donor row, says Abbott - The MP has criticised the Labour leader for his handling of her suspension from the party.

Diane Abbott appeared on the ITV show Lorraine to discuss politics and dealing with racism as well as what it was like to date Jeremy Corbyn.

Diane Abbott slams Starmer over race row and says Labour were determined to get rid of her - Veteran Labour MP says figures around Sir Keir Starmer ‘were determined to get rid of me’