Diane Abbott Quotes

• I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn’t.

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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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• 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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• Tackling childhood obesity is key.

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• Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.

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• Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

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• Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

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• You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self- serving and hypocritical.

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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.

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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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