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ANDREW PIERCE: Just what has happened to Diane Abbott’s charity? 

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Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott yesterday ruled out serving in the Shadow Cabinet of the next Labour leader. She told Sky’s Sophy Ridge: ‘There’s an awful lot to do on the back benches.’ It will come as a huge relief to Sir Keir Starmer, the current front runner in the party leadership race, that Abbott … Read more

Diane Abbott quits the shadow cabinet

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Diane Abbott quits the shadow cabinet: Labour veteran backs Corbynista Rebecca Long-Bailey for leadership but says she will not serve no matter who wins Mrs Abbott said she’d return to the backbenches to stop a ‘swerve to the right’  She backed Rebecca Long-Bailey to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader  The 66-year-old added that the … Read more