At long last we know what Abbott is doing now but speculation about a number of others persist.The Sunday Times today:'Labour offers MPs peerages to step down. Diane Abbott and others could go to the Lords as Keir Starmer seeks to reward his allies with seats. A string of former Labour MPs including Diane Abbott have been offered peerages to quit and make way for allies of Sir Keir Starmer.A number of left-wing MPs claim that since the general election announcement, they were told they would be elevated to the House of Lords if they gave up their seats.The leadership team is parachuting allies into Labour’s safest seats. They include Josh Simons, head of the Starmerite think tank Labour Together, in the Makerfield constituency; Luke Akehurst, a member of the executive committee, in North Durham; Torsten Bell, of the Resolution Foundation think tank, in Swansea West; and Alex Barros-Curtis, who, as Labour’s head of legal, oversaw the handling of Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension in 2020, in Cardiff West.'
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