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

Labour has launched an investigation into Abbott's defence of a 2023 letter to a newspaper in which she said people of colour ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party suspended Diane Abbott, the country's longest-serving female lawmaker, on ...

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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 ...

Secondly, why didn’t the interviewer, James Naughtie, challenge Abbott with her own words, on the BBC’s Question Time on ...

Veteran MP said in a BBC interview on Thursday that she stood by a 2023 letter comparing racism experienced by people of ...

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

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

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.

The exchequer secretary to the Treasury has said Diane Abbott's Labour suspension should be resolved as swiftly as possible.