New guidelines from the independent Sentencing Council were scheduled to come into force earlier this month but were delayed.

Parliament is set to debate the Labour Party government's callous DWP cuts to PIP for chronically ill and disabled people.

The son of Labour MP Diane Abbott has rejected claims that his mother was a hypocrite for sending him to a £10,000-a-year private school. James Abbott jumped to his mother's defence in a radio ...

I will vote against these proposals.” Veteran Labour MP and former shadow cabinet minister Diane Abbott posted on X last month: “I will be voting against these welfare cuts”. She has ...

He also mocked veteran Labour Parliamentarian Diane Abbott for becoming the first black MP to perform at the Opposition Dispatch Box during Prime Minister's Questions, as well as deriding a person ...

Pre-sentencing guidelines referring to offenders’ race or religion would ensure “everybody is treated the same” under the law, Mother of the House Diane Abbott has said. The Labour MP for ...

Mother of the House Diane Abbott has said. The Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington said Government efforts to block guidelines from the Sentencing Council raise a question as to how ...

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