Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott
Diane Julie Abbottis a British Labour Party politician and current Shadow Health Secretary. She was first elected as the Member of Parliamentfor Hackney North and Stoke Newington at the 1987 general election, when she became the first black woman to have a seat in the House of Commons...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 September 1953
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Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
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When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
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It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
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I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
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My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
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I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
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My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
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Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
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I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
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I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
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Tackling childhood obesity is key.
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Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.
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In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
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The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.