Diane Abbott has responded to her suspension from the Labour Party by sharing the clip of the interview which led to her losing the whip. The veteran Labour MP will now sit as an independent in the ...

For context, in 2023, Abbott wrote in a letter to The Observer that while Irish, Jewish and Traveller communities experience prejudice, they don’t experience racism in the same way as Black people.

Diane Abbott advised Jeremy Corbyn against setting up a new political party, she said, over concerns it would struggle to get a foothold in Britain because of the voting system. Ms Abbott, who served ...