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.

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

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.

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

Last week’s United Kingdom general election delivered a historic result. The Labour Party under Keir Starmer won a landslide majority in the House of Commons, within a few seats of Tony Blair’s ...

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

The long-serving MP has been readmitted to the Labour Party after a year-long suspension ...

Labour held onto one of England's most powerful elected offices, while Reform UK suffered a setback amid mounting investigations into the party's finances and leader Nigel Farage.

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 ...