Posts Tagged ‘diane abbott’
Backlash as Hackney North Labour passes motion rejecting claims of ‘institutional racism’
Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy calls on Labour’s executive committee to investigate Diane Abbott’s local party
Read MoreDiane Abbott’s constituency Labour Party backs her in BBC ‘media bias’ row
Hackney North Labour releases statement supporting the MP following her Question Time appearance earlier this month
Read MoreTitbits – Fuelling splits and political mis-hits
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read More‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’: Urswick head on how the school provides free meals for all
Richard Brown responds to campaign to stop children in Hackney being denied food due to their parents’ immigration status, saying the school has funded meals for all its students for years
Read MoreHackney children ‘going hungry at lunchtime’ due to parents’ immigration status
Diane Abbott & Mayor of Hackney pledge support for campaign to secure free school meals for undocumented children
Read MoreBrexit: Pro-EU youngsters single out Diane Abbott in ad van stand
Our Future, Our Choice campaigners unveil posters urging Labour frontbenchers to back a ‘people’s vote’
Read MoreFormer Hackney councillor renews call for national Windrush Day
Patrick Vernon urges government to make 22 June an annual ‘celebration of migrants’
Read MoreLeader – ‘Real’ politics
Labour’s language of moral censure in the aftermath of the elections is worrying
Read MoreDiane Abbott says UK can learn from Scotland’s ‘public health approach’ to knife crime
Shadow home secretary says stop and search has ‘poisoned relationship between police and communities’
Read MoreHackney Council to install sprinklers in 114 homes at Haggerston tower block
Queensbridge Road property is first in borough to get sprinklers since the Grenfell fire – due to the high average age of residents
Read MoreHackney MP Diane Abbott slammed over ‘disingenuous’ Brexit promise
Shadow Home Secretary rows back on pledge to argue for ‘electorate to get a vote on final deal’
Read MoreDiane Abbott suffers most abuse of all female MPs, ethics watchdog finds
Parliamentary committee calls on government to shift liability for illegal content on to social media companies
Read MoreRaising Hackney: Diane Abbott and Mayor Glanville celebrate Northwold Estate community centre
The community centre is celebrating a new name and the involvement of a new charity
Read MoreJihadi John-linked speaker dropped from Stand Up to Racism event with Diane Abbott
CAGE’s Moazzam Begg dropped just weeks after Hackney branch appearance
Read MoreFinsbury Park Post Office: Franchise to go ahead despite ‘wealth of opposition’
Diane Abbott expresses ‘disappointment’ at decision as local campaigner vows to carry out boycott threat
Read MoreDiane Abbott slammed for recounting racist abuse on live TV
The Shadow Home Secretary told ITV’s Good Morning Britain she has been called a ‘nigger bitch’ – prompting a frenzied reaction on social media
Read MoreCampaigners ‘mystified’ over Diane Abbott’s failure to sign fossil fuel pledge
Hackney MP’s team cites ‘Shadow Cabinet protocol’ and unfair media scrutiny
Read MoreResidents to boycott Finsbury Park Post Office stationery shop over merger
Campaigners hoping to save the current Crown Post Office drum up support as deadline for public consultation looms
Read More‘Unfair and unjust’: Charity hits out at council over eviction threat
Turkish Cypriot Cultural Association and Town Hall set for court battle as 30-year wrangle over who owns Dalston building nears end
Read MoreGrenfell: Diane Abbott urges retro-fitting of sprinklers in Hackney blocks
Shadow Home Secretary calls for Lakanal coroner’s recommendations to be implemented
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