For Diane Abbott, the child of Jamaican immigrants, the Windrush scandal has been personally and politically painful

Diane Abbott receives so many racist messages that her office does not have time to take them to the police every day, so an assistant bundles them up and sends them once a week.

A recent survey found that a third of all abuse sent to politicians goes to the shadow home secretary, one of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies, who 30 years ago became Britain’s first black female MP.

“I don’t want to have a hierarchy of hate crime but I would say that the main reason I get so much abuse online is because I’m both black and a woman,” she says. “Women get more than men and black women get more than white women and I get more than everybody else.” Ms Abbott