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Reeves to ignore funding options to tax on wealth above £10m and instead will go ahead and cut winter fuel payments, following a cross-party proposal by MPs who urged Rachel Reeves to impose 2% tax on wealth above £10m, having been lobbied by the banks.

Labour leader Keir Starmer says Diane Abbott is “free to go forward as a Labour candidate”, after days of speculation about her political future.

Labour treatment of Abbott having impact on voters, senior lawyer says Highlight the bias, if any in the title by underlining the biased words or…

Diane Abbott: Timeline of her suspension from racism comments to Labour ‘election ban’ The Labour party has become embroiled in a political row following the…

Most of Thursday’s front pages lead on domestic topics – with politics being the most popular. We’re less than 5 weeks away from the UK general election and the campaign trail is heating up. 

Several of the front pages lead on Diane Abbott defying Sir Keir Starmer as she says she will remain an MP for as long as possible. Abbott was suspended from Labour last April for saying Jewish, Irish and Traveller people do not face racism “all their lives”. 

The right-leaning and left-leaning newspapers have a different take on the Abbott story – either way, it’s bad for Labour! 

More from the campaign trail also features on the papers, the right-leaning newspapers lead on Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt saying Labour can’t be trusted with the economy, whilst the left-leaning newspapers say NHS nurses are in support of a Labour government. 

Strikes, celebrities and UK crime stories also feature on the front pages.

Diane Abbott vows to stay on as MP as Labour descends into chaos over botched suspension Diane Abbott has vowed to stay on as the…

Sunak calls on Starmer to be transparent about Diane Abbott situation – UK politics live SNP’s Stephen Flynn hails MP as a ‘phenomenal individual’ and…

Diane Abbott ‘to be banned from standing for Labour’ as it emerges race investigation finished five months ago Diane Abbott is to reportedly be banned…

Diane Abbott investigation to be completed by 4 June as Starmer sets D-Day for Labour veteran There is no bias in the title provided. Sign…

: “It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you’re just like I hate, you just want to hate all black women because she’s there, and I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot.”

Diane Abbott says migrants ‘f****d off to bottom of sea’ after Lee Anderson remark The Independent says MP Diane Abbott has prompted outrage by tweeting…

Labour officials will decide on Diane Abbott’s future, says shadow minister The Guardian says Diane Abbott’s local party and Labour officials will decide whether she…

Diane Abbott has Labour whip suspended after ‘hateful antisemitic’ remarks Sky News says Labour MP Diane Abbott has had the whip suspended following remarks in…

‘She’s absolutely wrong about this,’ the GMB host said over the politician’s withdrawn remarks.