Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim votersShabana Mahmood will press on with hardline immigration policies despite calls for a reversal from unions...
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Read MoreMP leads UK tributes to African American campaigner who has died aged 84Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84Jesse Jackson was “a direct connection to the great era of civil rights,” Diane Abbott said,...
Read MoreDawn Butler leads calls for humanitarian visas and fee waivers for vulnerable relatives of UK nationals affected by stormBritish MPs have joined campaigners calling for more aid and humanitarian visas for Jamaicans to enter the...
Read MoreLabour MPs talk openly about replacing PM, as third senior ally in two weeks departs after publication of WhatsAppsThe crisis engulfing Keir Starmer has deepened on the eve of Donald Trump’s visit to the UK after the...
Read MoreExclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising...
Read MoreMP predicts struggle under first-past-the-post system and says she will not leave Labour to join partyDiane Abbott has said she advised her longtime friend Jeremy Corbyn not to launch a new political party because she believed...
Read MoreExclusive: Contenders teed up for parliamentary seat, which MP says seems ‘to pre-empt results of investigation’Moves to find a successor to Diane Abbott in the parliamentary seat she has represented since 1987 are...
Read MoreExclusive: Contenders teed up for parliamentary seat, which MP says ‘seem to pre-empt results of investigation’Moves to find a successor to Diane Abbott in the parliamentary seat she has represented since 1987 are...
Read MoreWe should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – wayThe late broadcaster and campaigner Darcus Howe and Tottenham MP Bernie Grant once...
Read MoreThis blog is now closedJohn Healey has been accused by the Liberal Democrats of misleading parliament over the Afghan data leak.Ed Davey said that the defence secretary must “urgently come before parliament to answer the...
Read MoreTreasury minister James Murray said Abbott’s claim that ‘this Labour leadership wants me out’ was ‘absolutely not the case’Good morning and welcome to our coverage of UK politics. We’re now in...
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