British Labour MP Diane Abbott is under fire after referring to the Israeli military as the “Jewish Defence Forces” in a ...

The MP was replying to a post suggesting that Israeli soldiers ‘entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport’ ...

The Prime Minister has offered major concessions on benefits cuts after over 120 Labour MPs threatened to rebel ...

Diane Abbott has not spoken to Sir Keir Starmer properly in four years since the pair served in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, she has revealed. The 71-year-old, who was elected as the first ...

R eaders seeking "juicy political gossip" won't find it in Diane Abbott's memoir, "A Woman Like Me", said Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian.But "whatever you make" of Britain's first Black female MP ...

Diane Abbott has reignited her row with Sir Keir Starmer over anti-Semitism by suggesting “allies” of the Prime Minister are treated differently from his enemies when such accusations are made.

Diane Abbott MP has voiced her support for pro-Palestinian campaigners facing disciplinary action after a protest at the University of Oxford. More than a dozen Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned Britain’s benefits system is broken and fixing it is a “moral imperative”, days after a revolt by ...

Diane Abbott has condemned the participants in a group chat that mocked her and other Labour colleagues – which has led to two of the party’s MPs being suspended. Earlier today, a second ...

Abbott said: “When I was a new member in 1987, there were only 40 female members of parliament. Today we have 264, and some of us are glad that we have lived to see this.

Proud of her left-wing beliefs, Diane Abbott has been a fearless and vocal advocate for the disenfranchised, along with her neighbouring MP, Jeremy Corbyn.The pair had a brief relationship in the ...

Diane Abbott, Britain’s first Black female MP, tells Nadine White how she and Sir Keir Starmer still do not speak, despite being welcomed back into the Labour Party before the election ...