ABBOTT ON THE COMEBACK TRAIL?

IS DIANE Abbott, the Corbynite Labour MP, planning a comeback?

I hear she is considering running for the chairmanship of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee after Yvette Cooper quit to join the shadow cabinet. The additional £16,422 a year

Labour’s new shadow Foreign secretary David Lammy needs to improve his knowledge of our nearest neighbours. He once said Marie antoinette, Louis XVI’s queen who came to a grisly end on the guillotine, won a Nobel prize for her work on radiation. Er, that’s Marie Curie, David. THE self-righteous Green Party backed a campaign by the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union for a £15-an-hour minimum wage at their conference. This is the party that recently advertised for five field organisers with hourly rates starting at £11.40. So much for practising what they preach. would come in handy, as she has just published the accounts of her Diane Abbott Foundation, designed to help black children in education. Over the past five years she has used her own money to underwrite it to the tune of £14,115 due to the lack of donations.

MP STELLA CREASY is not the first mother to feed her baby during proceedings in the Commons. David Hinchliffe, who was chairman of the Commons Health Select Committee in 2005, wrote in the Yorkshire Post about an unnamed MP who did the same during one of his committee hearings. ‘I had no problem with her feeding her baby during meetings, but I was very strongly warned that this was against Commons rules,’ he recalls. ‘This was in clear breach of the regulation that no refreshments are allowed during committee meetings!’