2010:  Accused of playing the ‘race card’ after she defended sending her son James to a £10,000-a-year school claiming: ‘West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.’

2012: Outrages cab drivers by tweeting: ‘Dubious of black people claiming they’ve never experienced racism. Ever tried hailing a taxi I always wonder?’

2017: Told LBC Radio it would cost just £300,000 to hire 10,000 more police officers over four years – a grand total of £30 for each.

2017: Wrongly claims 16-year-olds can fight for their country and should therefore be able to vote.

2017:  Refuses four times on the Andrew Marr Show to say she regrets past support of the IRA, adding: ‘It was 34 years ago, I had a rather splendid afro at the time. I don’t have the same hairstyle and I don’t have the same views.’

2018: Angered London Police by criticising their tactic of knocking moped muggers off their vehicles, tweeting: ‘Knocking people off bikes is potentially very dangerous. It shouldn’t be legal for anyone. Police are not above the law.’

2018: Posts fake image of an Israeli fighter plane bombing Iran in a tweet slamming Britain’s airstrikes on Syria.

2019: Apologises after caught drinking a canned £2 M&S mojito on the London Overground.

2023: Has the Labour whip suspended in April for suggesting Jewish, Irish and traveller people are not subject to racism ‘all their lives’ in a letter to the Observer newspaper.

2023: Condemned for for saying drowned migrants have ‘indeed f***** off… to the bottom of the sea’, after MP Lee Anderson said asylum seekers complaining about being moved to barge accommodation should ‘f*** off back to France’.

So, really – Does anyone take Diane Abbott seriously?