Right. She was Shadow Home Sec. Here's a reminder from Wiki:
PS We've never heard more of her long term illness, which was the reason Corbyn used to lock her in a cupboard
On 2 May 2017, during
that year's general election campaign, Labour's pledge to recruit an extra 10,000 police officers was overshadowed by Abbott's inability to give accurate
funding figures. In an interview on
LBC Radio with
Nick Ferrari, she repeatedly struggled to explain how the promise would be funded. In the interview, Abbott frequently paused, shuffled her papers and gave out the wrong
figures.
[41] When asked about her performance, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, insisted he was not embarrassed by what many pundits called a "
car crash"
interview.
[42]
In a further interview conducted by
ITV on 5 May 2017, as the
2017 local elections results were being announced, Abbott was again unable to give accurate figures on the Labour party's performance suggesting that the party had a net loss of 50 seats. However, her figure was corrected by the interviewer who stated that Labour had in fact lost 125 seats, at which point Abbott said that the last figures she had seen were a net loss of around 100.
[43]
Appearing on
Andrew Marr's Sunday morning programme for the BBC on 28 May, Abbott's apparent support for the
IRA nearly 35 years ago came up, along with some parliamentary votes Marr thought questionable. These included her advocacy of the abolition of "conspiratorial groups" such as
MI5 and
Special Branch in the late 1980s, both of which she said had been successfully reformed. She defended a vote opposing the proscription of a list of groups, including
al-Qaida, on the basis that some of the others had the status of dissidents in their country of origin and Abbott would have voted to ban al-Qaida in isolation.
[44] According to
Sam Coates in
The Times, this appearance was arranged without the consent of Labour's campaign team.
[45]
On 5 June 2017, during a
Sky News interview, Abbott was unable to answer questions about the Harris report on how to protect London from terror attacks. She insisted that she had read the report, but was unable to recall any of the 127 recommendations. When asked if she could remember the specific recommendations, Abbott said: "I think it was an important review and we should act on it."
[46][47] Abbott also denied reports that Corbyn and shadow chancellor
John McDonnell were attempting to stop her from making broadcasts.
[45][48] The next day, Abbott withdrew at the last minute – citing illness – from a joint interview on
Woman's Hour on 6 June, in which she had been due to face her Conservative frontbench opposite number
Amber Rudd.
[49] On 7 June, Corbyn announced that Abbott was "not well" and had stepped aside in her role as Shadow Home Secretary.
Lyn Brown was temporarily assigned to replace her.
[50] Barry Gardiner said in a radio interview on LBC that Abbott had been diagnosed with having a "long-term" medical condition, and was "coming to terms with that".
[50]
I support them more than you. What next? my dad is bigger than your dad? 
