Abbott: I’ve never had a nice chat with Starmer

Diane Abbott is on the warpath, and her target is Sir Keir Starmer. Earlier this week, the Labour MP hit out at the Prime Minister during an interview with BBC Newsnight, in which she slammed the Labour leader for his behaviour towards her during the Frank Hester racism row, describing how he treated her as, er, a ‘non-person’. Now, the Hackney North parliamentarian has extended her attack, airing her woes on a podcast that might reach those less news-inclined. Interviewed by author Elizabeth Day on her hit podcast ‘How to Fail’, the veteran MP divulged her chosen three failures (not getting a first at university, losing her 2010 leadership bid and failing to help Jeremy Corbyn win the 2019 general election). She went on to launch into a cosy confessional – managing, of course, to throw in a mix of acid-tongued remarks about her parliamentary colleagues as she did so…

First revisiting the Frank