COMMENT: We need to have a grown up conversation about racism, writes Ava Vidal – and I believe people are missing what the ...

Labour chiefs are not seeking to force Diane Abbott out of the party, says a minister after she was suspended for doubling ...

Carpenter resigned from the Lee's Summit district in July 2019, taking a $750,000 buyout, after a tenure marked by ...

MP Diane Abbott has been suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation into comments she made about racism, the BBC understands. The move also means that Abbott will sit as an independent MP, ...

Veteran MP Diane Abbott has told the BBC she believes Labour's leadership is trying to force her out, following her second ...

Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time after repeating comments about racism for which she had previously apologised. The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP said the ...

A government minister has rejected Diane Abbott's claim that the Labour leaderhip wants her out of the party after she was suspended for a second time over comments about racism. Treasury Minister ...

Exchequer secretary to the Treasury James Murray said it was ‘absolutely not the case’ that Number 10 had wanted Ms Abbott to ...

The MP said Black people experience a different kind of racism to Jewish people, Irish people and travellers. She has now ...

Ms Abbott was suspended in 2023 after writing a letter to the Observer comparing racism experienced by people of colour with that of other groups.

But by Friday attention turned to whether Abbott would join former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s loose grouping of ...

Sky News understands that the suspension is not related to the four rebels who lost the whip on Wednesday for "repeated breaches" of party discipline.