Labour leader Ed Miliband sacked prominent left-winger Diane Abbott from his front bench health team yesterday.
Ms Abbott immediately pledged to intensify her campaigning for the people of her Hackney constituency and to speak out strongly from the back benches on key issues.
She was called to Mr Miliband's office yesterday morning to be told that she was losing her job as shadow public health minister in his front bench reshuffle.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott


