Wrong facts? You can talk, Diane Abbott!

After her woeful handling of the Windrush scandal, and leaked memos on immigration targets, it was perhaps inevitable that Amber rudd would lose her fight to keep her post as Home Secretary.

But even though the Labour Party may rejoice in her exit having called for her to quit, they should put their own house in order when it comes to accuracy.

Leading the charge for Labour against rudd was Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, who attacked her opposite number for her inability to ‘get basic facts right’. Yes, you read that right. Diane Abbott lecturing another politician about basic facts! Oh, Diane, where do I begin? Perhaps with the video you released last year backing votes for 16yearolds. ‘I believe in votes at 16. If you’re old enough to fight for your country, you’re old enough to vote,’ Ms Abbott opined. except, of course, the minimum age to fight in the military is 18.

In an interview three days before the 2017 general election, Abbott appeared ignorant of recommendations made in a key counterterrorism review by Labour peer, Lord Harris, about how to protect London from more terror attacks — despite insisting she’d read it.

And that came after the excruciating car crash of a radio interview when she insisted the cost of employing 10,000 extra police officers would be £300,000 — which would mean a salary of £30 each.

Before then, in June 2016, she was mocked pitilessly when she asked what help the Government was offering drought victims ‘in the Indonesian province of Davao del Norte’. None, was the reply from Justine Greening, then the International Development Secretary: ‘there is no province called Davao del Norte in Indonesia.’ If Diane had checked her facts, she’d have known it is the Philippines.