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DIANE ABBOTT stepped up her criticism of the BBC yesterday over her poor treatment on Question Time last week.
The shadow home secretary was interrupted and “corrected” by the show’s presenter Fiona Bruce for saying that Labour was “level-pegging” with the Conservatives in the polls.
“Fiona Bruce was clearly repeating Tory propaganda that Labour were behind in the polls,” Ms Abbott tweeted.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott