Diane Abbott was the UK's first black MP and is Labour's longest-serving MP The long-serving MP Diane Abbott has been let ...

Ms Abbott was suspended from the party in July last year.

The mother of the House of Commons lost the whip twice under Keir Starmer.

Diane Abbott has returned to the Labour Party after her year-long suspension over an antisemitism row was lifted by Prime ...

Men should be banned from running to become the next Labour leader, Baroness Harman has said. The Labour peer said the party should not have a male leader succeed Andy Burnham, ad ...

Diane Abbott returns to Labour, a year after her suspension over comments about racism.

She will work closely with Lucy Powell, having lost out to her in the deputy leadership contest.

Labour Party candidate Bev Craig was elected mayor of Greater Manchester on Friday, after a vote triggered by the departure ...

Diane Abbott has been readmitted to the Labour Party after an internal investigation, the veteran MP has said. She was ...

The Mother of the House Diane Abbott has had the Labour whip restored just under two weeks into Andy Burnham’s premiership. Burnham had faced calls from MPs including John McDonnell and Clive Lewis to ...

Andy Burnham has been officially declared leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party, clearing his final hurdle to taking office as prime minister next week.

Andy Burnham has won on his third attempt to be Labour’s leader. In a wide-ranging speech to Labour MPs at a special conference in London, a jubilant Burnham pledged to “bring back hope” and promised ...