On a night marked by Labour’s historic landslide victory in the General Election, Diane Abbott has successfully retained her seat as the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. The long-serving and respected Labour MP secured 23,355 votes, defeating Conservative candidate David Landau and Green Party candidate Antoinette Fernandez. Abbott, one of Parliament’s longest-serving MPs, […]
Diane Abbott, Britain’s first black female Member of Parliament (MP) and the country’s longest-serving black MP, has been barred from running as a Labour candidate in the upcoming general election despite having her party membership reinstated. Abbott, who has represented the Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency since 1987, revealed this development in an interview […]