The 71-year-old, who was elected as the first Black woman MP in 1987, says there is a clear divide in the Labour Party and ...

Labour work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall says young people who refuse jobs or training will lose payments, as prime ...

Veteran MP Diane Abbott has demanded Sir Keir Starmer stops ‘pedalling the benefit scrounger myth’ ahead of a clampdown.

Following Mr Starmer's remarks in the Mail on Sunday, veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott said: "Sad that Starmer is peddling the ...

Diane Abbott has called for more discussion around assisted dying before MPs vote, saying it is "literally a life and death ...

Labour's Diane Abbott and Conservative Sir Edward Leigh say they fear the bill will put the vulnerable at risk.

MPs are set to vote on legalising assisted dying at the end of November but Sir Edward Leigh says they have not had enough ...

Longest-serving female and male MPs will vote against law change next week, warning of ‘unintended consequences’ ...

Readers seeking "juicy political gossip" won't find it in Diane Abbott's memoir, "A Woman Like Me", said Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian. But "whatever you make" of Britain's first Black female MP ...

Kim Leadbeater’s ‘dangerous’ a Bill should not become law, Labour MP Diane Abbott and Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh have ...