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Diane Abbott
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Diane Abbott

politician, journalist

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1953

Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament, and in 2024 became its longest-serving female MP, earning the title Mother of the House. A former Shadow Home Secretary and Privy Counsellor, Abbott has been a prominent figure on the Labour left and a vocal campaigner on issues of race and inequality. She was suspended from the Labour Party in 2023 over comments about racism, later apologised, and had the whip restored ahead of the 2024 general election. In July 2025, she was suspended again after reiterating those remarks in a BBC interview, and currently sits as an independent MP.

All Quotes by Diane Abbott

“I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.”
— Diane Abbott
“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.”
— Diane Abbott
“Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children — clean, indoors and no heavy lifting.”
— Diane Abbott
“I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.”
— Diane Abbott
“White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We should not play their game.”
— Diane Abbott
“There is a crisis of masculinity in Britain because of the pressures rapid economic and social change have placed on masculine identity. A generation of men are in transit and unclear of their social role. They are also under pressure to live up to pornified ideals.”
— Diane Abbott
“On balance Mao did more good than harm.”
— Diane Abbott
“Migrants from outside the EU should be treated with the same fairness as EU migrants after Brexit.”
— Diane Abbott
“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.”
— Diane Abbott