Like her or not, no one can deny Diane Abbott is a trailblazer. She has scored several major accomplishments: the first black girl at her local grammar school, the first black woman at Newnham ...
Labour MP Diane Abbott has accused the Conservatives of "paying lip service to fighting racism" after it accepted another £5m donation from controversial businessman Frank Hester. The chief ...
No-one has ever described Diane Abbott as a riddle or a mystery, let alone an enigma. If ever an MP were frustratingly – or, ...
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One of Labour's most senior MPs has said she would be sad if Diane Abbott's career ends without her being readmitted to the parliamentary party. Ex-deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman told the BBC ...
A Woman Like Me, Ms Abbott describes meeting Mr Corbyn for the first time at the 1978 Labour Party conference in Blackpool nine years before she was first elected to Parliament. Diane Abbott has ...
In her book, A Woman Like Me, the MP for Hackney North ... was precisely the image he was trying to get away from.” Diane Abbott has claimed former Labour leader Neil Kinnock viewed his black ...
The Tories have accepted another £5 million from a wealthy businessman who said Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all black women” and “should be shot”. It takes the amount of money the ...
Diane Abbott has recalled her first meeting with Jeremy Corbyn in her new book, describing how the two young Labour activists ...
In the midst of dealing with racist comments from a Tory political donor, MP Diane Abbott attended PMQs today ... I am a single woman and that makes me vulnerable anyway. But to hear someone ...
Diane Abbott has revealed Jeremy ... I was able to argue for at least one restaurant lunch.' Ms Abbott, the first black woman MP, further recalled a monastic, 'freezing' Christmas born from ...
John McTernan, who was Tony Blair's political secretary, said: 'It's not for the Labour Party to ban a woman with Diane Abbott's record from standing for the Labour Party if that's what she wishes ...