Keir Starmer: Diane Abbott and Trade Secretary

keir starmer: In attendance were the shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, and Corbyn's wily old ally John McDonnell, along with handpicked Corbyn supporters including Diane Abbott and Jon Trickett, plus the shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, and the Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti, according to The Guardian. Later that day, Corbyn was due to address Labour backbenchers for the first time since the breakaway. How May miscalculated the Brexit numbers game Read more Seven days earlier, Chuka Umunna and his band of splitters had summoned journalists to a press conference to announce they were leaving the party, blaming Brexit policy as well as a failure to tackle antisemitism. With little more than a month left until Brexit day, longtime backers of a second referendum were ramping up the pressure on the leadership. We didn't want a lot of people to start resigning because of that. One of the things people were thinking was that because the splitters the evacuees were making a point about Brexit, we should get our position out there, recalled one shadow minister who was present. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.