Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician and current Shadow Health Secretary. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) 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.

Quotes

1980s

1990s

  • Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children — clean, indoors and no heavy lifting.
    • Independent, 18 January 1994.

2010s

  • White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We should not play their game.
    • Twitter post reproduced in Daily Telegraph, 5 Jan 2012
  • Of course, sex is great. We don't have to pretend otherwise. But people shouldn't feel victimised by a pornified culture and girls shouldn't be forced to do things they don't feel comfortable with.
  • 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.
  • On balance Mao did more good than harm.
    • On BBC One's This Week during a debate over who was the history's worst dictator. (27/11/2015)
  • When I had been at primary school, I was very good at writing essays. It was a big thing. My essays were so good they would get pinned up on the wall and read out to the rest of the class
  • There's no question women politicians get a level of abuse online which men don't get. New media and the anonymity has unleashed a really quite violent misogyny which I didn't see when I started in politics, although consistently women always get more severe abuse in the media than men.
  • I think that's what we were referencing when we talked about easy movement [of workers after the UK has left the EU's single market] - less bureaucracy; it's good for migrants but it's also good for business
  • The health service, they're very worried about a collapse in the number of EU migrants coming here. Social care would be in a terrible position.... finance, education. The reality is that business, the CBI, the Institute of Directors, but also health, education and social care; they say that they need these European migrants and we have to listen to them.

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