The prime minister is delivering a speech after Lord Darzi’s damning report on the NHS.   10:19 Starmer says this cannot all be blamed on Covid. He goes on: Covid hit our NHS harder ...

Labour MP Diane Abbott ... yet more money from this disgraced donor". The MP called on the four candidates running to replace Mr Sunak as Conservative leader to "make it clear [their party ...

Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn briefly dated ... together in 1979 on a camping holiday in the South of France. Abbott said: ‘We travelled by motorbike and, Jeremy being Jeremy, it was a ...

Without your contributions, we wouldn't have the resources to challenge ... keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Diane Abbott has recalled her first meeting with ...

Diane Abbott has accused Keir Starmer's aides of being ... Keir Starmer is he hasn't been in the party very long. So though we were in the shadow cabinet at the same time under Jeremy, he's ...

Labour MP Diane Abbott has accused the ... head in shame for taking yet more money from this disgraced donor". The MP called on the four candidates running to replace Mr Sunak as Conservative leader ...

Diane Abbott has revealed Jeremy Corbyn's idea of taking her on a hot date was a trip to see Karl Marx's tomb - as she tells all about their love affair. The staunch left-wingers met in 1978 years ...

Diane Abbott has opened up about a disastrous date she had with Jeremy Corbyn when the pair were an item in the 1970s. In an edited extract published by The Guardian from her upcoming book A Woman ...

“He rang Diane Abbott twice today to try to apologise directly for the hurt he has caused her, and is deeply sorry for his remarks. He wishes to make it clear that he regards racism as a poison ...

We were the embodiment of the ‘loony left’, and this was precisely the image he was trying to get away from.” Diane Abbott ... he claims to have made clear to Ms Abbott at the time.

“[The executive] and Diane Abbott need to be shot. She’s stupid … If we can get [the executive] being unprofessional we can get her sacked. It’s not as good as her dying. It would be much better if ...

Diane Abbott has recalled her first meeting with ... Recalling the encounter, Ms Abbot wrote: “We were drawn to one another from the moment we met: Jeremy saw me as energetic, determined and ...