The shadow home secretary was questioned about remarks of her own made in a 1984 interview about Northern Ireland, where she said: "Every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us."

Ms Abbott said: "It was 34 years ago. A few years later I became an MP... I have moved on in the intervening 34 years."

Conservative Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has used her remarks to launch an attack on the Labour leadership: "Jeremy Corbyn's lies have been exposed by his own shadow home secretary.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40069744

Dianne Makes Mathematical slips and you make linguistic slips. Dianne Abbott STRIKE again.

Keep talking Diane because each time you say something you are killing the party.

'You said al-Qaeda were NOT terrorists' Iain Dale savages Diane Abbott over voting record

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/810028/Iain-Da...rror-Corbyn-election

The Tories are clearly trying to make political capital out of the Manchester attack, which seems pretty low, but Jeremy Corbyn doesn't help himself in that video.

"I was in Parliament at the time, I heard the attack go off... The bombing campaign was completely wrong because it was taking civilian lives and there had to be a process that dealt with the basis of it in Northern Ireland."

As everyone knows, a lot of the lives lost were British soldiers. I recall a fellow student at university from Northern Ireland expressing the view that British soldiers in NI were "legitimate targets" for the IRA. Jeremy Corbyn's singling out of civilians comes uncomfortably close to that.

Why does Corbyn keep her?

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Why does Corbyn keep her?

ah, everyone remembers their first shag !
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/22/reve...e-abbott-to-impress/


btw - Corbyn can't add up either !
www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40090520