
BRITAIN’S first black female MP received rapturous applause from Labour members as she slammed the Tories for trying to win votes with “dog-whistle racism,” adding: “Haters gonna hate.”
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott also attacked the government’s record on policing, telling her party’s conference yesterday: “The Tories are insulting our intelligence if they think the public will simply forget who caused this crisis of law and order.”
Ms Abbott tore into the Tory government’s handling of violent crime and its “chaotic” immigration policies.

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Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike