Diane Abbott loses the Labour whip and Britons being evacuated from war-torn Sudan lead Monday's papers.
A number of Monday's papers lead with Diane Abbott being suspended pending an investigation into a letter she wrote to the Observer about racism. The Times says her future in the Labour Party is in doubt after she was disciplined for claiming that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people suffer prejudice - but not racism.Diane Abbott is "fighting for her political career" as Labour is "plunged into a new antisemitism row", the i Newspaper says.
The paper says there are concerns in the Cabinet about how the crisis has been handled after it emerged senior embassy officials were not in Sudan when fighting started.The Metro also reports that British diplomats and their families have been flown out of Sudan after a daring night-time dash with special forces to a secret airfield. The paper says hundreds of Brits "fear they are trapped" and that Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said help is "severely limited".
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