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Diane Abbott

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Diane Abbott MP: There is a fundamental right to strike and a human rights lawyer should support that

Diane Abbott
3 August, 2022 (3 weeks ago)

‘The Labour Party and the labour movement came into being through protest, some of it illegal at the time as our commemorating the Tolpuddle Martyrs testifies. ‘

A stick reading "Vote Labour"

Diane Abbott MP: Why you should support the Grassroots 5 in Labour’s NEC election

Diane Abbott
27 July, 2022 (4 weeks ago)

‘The NEC election is an opportunity to put grassroots activists, who will fight for Labour to change direction, on to our leading body.’

Diane Abbott MP: We must resist the government’s assault on the Human Rights Act

Diane Abbott
8 July, 2022

‘When pressed, it is perhaps not surprising that ministers fail to specify any rights or even any specific rulings they find objectionable.’

rmt

Diane Abbott MP: Of course RMT members deserve our support

Diane Abbott
22 June, 2022

‘It seems surprising to me that anyone in the labour movement should see it any other way, when the RMT’s case is so clear-cut.’

Diane Abbott: Boris Johnson’s crisis also means we have to step up the struggle against racism

Diane Abbott
8 June, 2022

‘When the government finds itself in difficulties as a result of its own policies, it resorts to xenophobic and outright racist measures’

Boris Johnson

Diane Abbott MP: The Tories are introducing second class citizenship with authoritarian legislation

Diane Abbott
26 May, 2022

The government’s own track record and ministers’ recent statements should ring alarm bells for all trades unionists.

Voting Ballot Box

Diane Abbott MP: After the local elections, we still have a long way to go

Diane Abbott
10 May, 2022

‘Against this hugely unpopular government, a really clear opposition with policies and messaging that show we are on the side of ordinary people can yield massive results’

Diane Abbott MP: We are being swamped with reactionary immigration legislation and vile policies

Diane Abbott
27 April, 2022

‘Under successive governments we have been swamped with anti-migrant legislation and Home Office practice reflects that political outlook, and blocks claimants at every turn’.

Voting Ballot Box

Diane Abbott MP: What is at stake in the local government elections?

Diane Abbott
12 April, 2022

‘Representation at all levels of government matters because of what we can deliver.’

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

Diane Abbott MP: This crisis of living standards is government made

Diane Abbott
31 March, 2022

‘History suggests that political upheaval is very likely to follow. The Labour government of 1997, for example, was ushered in on the back of rising food prices.’

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