Diane Abbott is well known for her outlandish comments and today she delighted a crowd of Labour activists at a Momentum-backed festival when she stated proudly that Britain will see her as Home Secretary. Currently the role of Home Secretary is occupied by the controversial Sajid Javid who has significantly softened the UK’s immigration policy.
Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott has promised the delighted supporters they “will see Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10” and “myself as Home Secretary”.
Abbott told the hard left crowd of about 70 activists that the chaos surrounding Brexit made her rise to power even more likely. It’s not usual for politicians to promote themselves in such a big way rather they usually promote the party.
Abbott also spoke about the direction Labour would have on Britain’s role overseas if Corbyn took the keys to Downing Street.
She said:
A Labour government will have a pivotal international role to play so I am proud to have supported Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership from the very beginning.
We are going to be campaigning for human rights, we are going to be campaigning for peace in the Middle East, we are going to be campaigning for a two-state solution, and we are going to be campaigning for justice for the Palestinians.”
This comes as Abbott has dropped a complaint against The Mail on Sunday newspaper after she had claimed that their report about her using a gents toilet was made up.
Abbott was forced to withdraw her complaint after a witness gave a full account of how she had ‘stumbled’ into the men’s toilets and acknowledged him as he was at a urinal – before entering one of the cubicles. This all happened at about 10pm on the 11th of June in Portcullis house where MP’s have their offices.
The witness to the event said: “She acknowledged me at the urinals and then went into one of the cubicles. She had been dining in The Adjournment (a restaurant in Portcullis House)… After she finished in the loo she immediately exited via Westminster Tube with her dining companion.”
Abbott said the story had breached IPSO’s Editors’ Code of Practice, which says that the media must not ‘publish inaccurate misleading or distorted information’.
Her spokesperson said that by publishing the item ‘without thoroughly investigating its authenticity’ the Mail on Sunday had ‘deliberately and with malice attracted harmful and abusive comments towards Ms Abbott’. Abbott had called for action to remedy the ‘glaring inaccuracies’ of the story.
A spokesperson for Abbott declined to comment….
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