Browsing: Diane Abbott

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…

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

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…

Sunak calls on Starmer to be transparent about Diane Abbott situation – UK politics live SNP’s Stephen Flynn hails MP…

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

Diane Abbott investigation to be completed by 4 June as Starmer sets D-Day for Labour veteran There is no bias…

: “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.”