Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White

I’ve seen the unredacted chats and other internal conversations, and I know the context. Believe me, there is more trouble to come

Another day in Keir Starmer’s government, another day in the Whitehall and Westminster bubble, with uproar over the resignation of Paul Ovenden, one of the PM’s top aides. What did he do?

Ovenden, who served as the director of strategy in Downing Street, stepped down after admitting to discussing Britain’s first Black woman MP, Diane Abbott, now 71, in derogatory sexual terms with party colleagues in 2017. In one message, he described a “shag, marry, kill” game where he and two others had discussed Abbott and a colleague “using a strap-on” during sex and the prospect of “going down on” the MP.