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On 21 February 2018, Diane Abbott was blasted for comparing British people's concerns about mass immigration to the scapegoating of minorities by [[Nazis]] in the 1930s. UK Conservative Party politician Philip Hollobone commented that Abbot's London-centric and anti-Brexit views were "more warped than ever".<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cXkBRMtwnZoJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/21/diane-abbot-sparks-fury-britains-immigration-views-draws-pre/&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Diane Abbott sparks fury over Britain's immigration views as she draws pre-Nazi Germany comparisons]</ref>
 
On 21 February 2018, Diane Abbott was blasted for comparing British people's concerns about mass immigration to the scapegoating of minorities by [[Nazis]] in the 1930s. UK Conservative Party politician Philip Hollobone commented that Abbot's London-centric and anti-Brexit views were "more warped than ever".<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cXkBRMtwnZoJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/21/diane-abbot-sparks-fury-britains-immigration-views-draws-pre/&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Diane Abbott sparks fury over Britain's immigration views as she draws pre-Nazi Germany comparisons]</ref>
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''PoliticsHome'' reported in April 2018, Diane Abbott was slammed by the Conservative Party for using fake images to attack the Conservative government's policy on Syria.<ref>[https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/tories-slam-outrageous-diane-abbott-for-sharing-fake-syria-bombing-picture Tories slam 'outrageous' Diane Abbott for sharing fake Syria bombing picture] </ref>
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''PoliticsHome'' reported in April 2018, Diane Abbott was slammed by the Conservative Party for using fake images to attack the Conservative government's policy on Syria.<ref>[https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/tories-slam-outrageous-diane-abbott-for-sharing-fake-syria-bombing-picture Tories slam 'outrageous' Diane Abbott for sharing fake Syria bombing picture]</ref>
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During the failed 2019 Labour Party campaign, Diane Abbott pushed the [[conspiracy theory]], in a Facebook post on 28 November 2019, that then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was planning to sell the UK's National Health Service to US drug companies.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/Dianeabbott/posts/1556794887796297/ Boris Johnson has put the NHS up for sale.]</ref> The documents from which this claim originates are likely to have been part of a Russia-based disinformation campaign.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/02/unredacted-documents-jeremy-corbyn-says-prove-nhs-sale-resemble/ Labour told to 'come clean' about how it obtained leaked government documents after report  links them to Russia]</ref>
    
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