Diane Abbott Quotes

• 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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• My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

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• I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

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• Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

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• I want to write a best-selling book.

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• My family were from Jamaica.

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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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• 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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• I don’t think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

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• I’m a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

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• I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

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• You learn from mistakes.

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• I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

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• In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

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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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• Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.

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• Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they’re all out of central casting.

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• My father was a manual worker.

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• It’s very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

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Diane Abbott (30)

Birth:	27th September, 1953
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Diane Julie Abbott was born in London, UK. She is a British Labour Party politician who is the Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament for 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.

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