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Diane Abbott and Sir Keir Starmer served in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet (Yui Mok/PA)
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Diane Abbott: Russia isn’t the threat to the West that Starmer claims

The idea that Russia is ready or able to sweep through western Europe any time in the foreseeable future is not a serious proposition, writes Diane Abbott MP. Yet Europe is now in a frenzy of warmongering and agitation for higher military spending – and we’re falling for it

<p>President John F Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas</p>
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