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June 4, 2024, 4:15 pm

Labour’s final election candidate list includes Diane Abbott

Veteran MP is confirmed as candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, after a row sparked by claims she had been barred

By Lee Harpin

May 31, 2024, 2:10 pm

Diane Abbott ‘free’ to run for Labour in general election, says Starmer

Keir Starmer says there is nothing preventing the veteran MP Diane Abbott from standing at the election

By Lee Harpin

According to several unconfirmed reports, Diane Abbott was present during the vote.

May 28, 2024, 10:59 pm

Diane Abbott unlikely to stand at the election despite getting Labour whip back

Following conclusion of an antisemitism investigation Britain’s first black female MP is facing end of her 37-year career in parliament

By Lee Harpin

May 24, 2024, 5:09 pm

Labour probe into Diane Abbott ‘will be resolved before election’

The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington had the whip withdrawn in April 2023 after writing that Irish and Jewish people and Travellers experience prejudice, but not racism.

By Jewish News Reporter

March 16, 2024, 10:28 am

Diane Abbott denies she ‘refused to take antisemitism course to rejoin Labour’

The MP wrote a letter to The Observer suggesting Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism “all their lives”.

By Jewish News Reporter

March 14, 2024, 7:22 pm

Starmer says probe into Abbott antisemitism article ‘entirely different’ issue from racism row

Senior Labour source claims that since Diane Abbott's suspension over comments that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people do not face racism 'all their lives' her conduct has 'taken her further' from having the whip restored

By Lee Harpin

September 19, 2023, 5:26 pm

Suspended Diane Abbott blasts ‘fraudulent’ disciplinary probe

The Hackney North MP, suspended in April over newspaper letter claiming Jews don't experience racism, claims she is being replaced as the Labour candidate 'prior to the next election”.

By Lee Harpin

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer with school children during a visit to a Co-op store in Ripley, Derbyshire, where he met local residents and shoppers ahead of the local elections on May 4.

April 28, 2023, 2:28 pm

Starmer denies targeting left-wing MPs after Abbott suspension

"Most people including Diane, who of course apologised, recognised just how wrong and offensive it was," he said.

By Jewish News Reporter

Keir Starmer appears on ITV's This Morning

April 25, 2023, 11:43 am

Keir Starmer outlines the party ‘process’ for deciding Diane Abbott’s Labour future

The Labour leader appeared on ITV's This Morning where he was asked about Diane Abbott's future after her letter claiming Jews, Irish and the traveller community did not face racism every day

By Lee Harpin

April 25, 2023, 7:41 am

OPINION: Diane Abbott saga brings the bad old days back into view

Diane Abbott says Jews were not forced to sit at the back of the bus, but casually forgets they weren’t even allowed on public transport in Germany, writes Joshua Rom

By Joshua Rom

BBC London News presenter leads bulletin with JVL statement on Diane Abbott

April 24, 2023, 11:32 am

BBC London leads its news broadcasts with call by JVL for Diane Abbott to be reinstated

JLM national secretary Adam Langleben, says decision by BBC London to lead its news bulletins on Diane Abbott's suspension with a statement from the disgraced JVL group displays a 'profound level of ignorance'

By Lee Harpin

April 24, 2023, 10:18 am

Growing calls for Diane Abbott to stand down ahead of next election

In response to the suspension of Diane Abbott as a Labour MP, Lord Mann told Jewish News: 'I think we are seeing a rather sad end to what has been a very prominent political career'

By Lee Harpin

April 23, 2023, 11:58 am

Diane Abbott suspended as Labour MP over claim Jews don’t face racism ‘all their lives’

The MP claims in letter, published by The Observer, that unlike the racism faced by black people, 'Jewish, Irish and traveller communities' have experienced 'prejudice'

By Lee Harpin

February 16, 2023, 10:55 am

Corbyn’s allies hit out at Starmer’s decision to block Labour candidacy

Long-standing ally Diane Abbott hit out at Sir Keir Starmer and other MPs online on Thursday.

By Jewish News Reporter

Diana Abbott (right) seen at protest against Israeli police visit organised by Hackney Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Pic published by Hackney PSC

June 29, 2022, 3:39 pm

Diane Abbott protests against ‘Israeli apartheid police’ in Hackney

Labour MP attends Palestine Solidarity Campaign demo after officers show Israeli cops 'good practice in neighbourhood policing in areas with large Orthodox Jewish communities.'

By Lee Harpin

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