Diane Abbott MP Articles

While I am outraged at the latest disclosures about the snooping activities of Scotland Yard, sadly, I am not hugely surprised. State paranoia about the Labour movement has existed since its conception and the news that members of Special Branch surveilled sitting...

Nobody doubts that the rioting that we witnessed nationwide in the summer of 2011 was often criminal, copycat activity. There was also much sheer materialism. But underlying the riots, particularly in London, were long-standing issues about the relationship between...

A mansion tax is a good idea in principle. But in practice it raises a number of policy challenges. So shadow chancellor Ed Balls is correct to say that it should be done in a fair way. One challenging fact about a mansion tax is that it is, in effect, a tax on...

Labour must not ape the right’s anti-immigration narrative, warns Diane Abbott The Tories and the United Kingdom Independence party have made no secret of the fact that an anti-immigrant narrative is going to be at the heart of their electoral offer in 2015. There is...