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Get Well Soon
Dianne Abbott has not had a good election but the vitriol with which the press and twitter have picked up on it is clearly racist and politically motivated. It was announced yesterday that she is ill, and will be stepping down temporarily as shadow home affairs spokesperson.
- I look at the story and hope she get's well soon and start with Jack Monroe's defence of her superb record.
- We need to talk about Diane Abbott. Now. (EXPLICIT CONTENT)This is not a recipe. I wrote this as a series of tweets today and readers asked for it as a blog post, so here it is. Our politics may differ, so feel free to skip straight back to the recipes if …
- Diane Abbott replaced as shadow home secretary due to ‘ill health’Labour MP Diane Abbott is being replaced as shadow home secretary during a “period of her ill health,” the party has said.
- Diane Abbott suffering from 'serious, long-term condition', Labour shadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner saysDiane Abbott has been diagnosed with a “serious, long-term condition”, shadow minister Barry Gardiner has said. The Labour Party announced on Wednesday morning that Ms Abbott was being replaced as Labour's shadow home secretary during a “period of her ill health”.
- Spare me the racist, misogynist rants about Diane Abbott – we all know Boris Johnson is far more incompetentDiane Abbott as Home Secretary? It’s become yet another parroted Tory scare slogan, as if we were being asked to put Katie Hopkins in charge of the Prevent strategy, or gift Jeremy Clarkson the presidency of the British Caravan Club.