Diane Abbott

British MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington · United Kingdom · Politicians · Born 1953 · age 73

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2024“Numbers are a polite way of expressing hostility to migration as a whole.”In their wordsImmigration: How British Politics Failed, BBC documentary, episode 1 (2024).Read the whole statement

2019“[Remaining in the EU would be the] best option for the country and my constituents”In their words20 August 2019BBC News, 20 August 2019Read the whole statement

“The British people and British workers are paying a big price for chaotic Brexit”In their words23 March 2019BBC News, 23 March 2019Read the whole statement

2018“[We will table an amendment to reject the deal and] prevent the chaos of the UK crashing out of the EU”In their words29 November 2018BBC News, 29 November 2018Read the whole statement

“Migrants from outside the EU should be treated with the same fairness as EU migrants after Brexit.”In their words13 September 2018BBC News, 13 September 2018Read the whole statement

“We don't want to see the break-up of families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.”In their words21 February 2018BBC News, 21 February 2018Read the whole statement

1953Born27 September 1953

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Abbott speaking at the New Statesman hustings for the 2010 Labour Party leadership election

Abbott at a Jeremy Corbyn leadership rally in August 2016

Abbott at a rally in Trafalgar Square in 2016

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Diane Abbott

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Numbers are a polite way of expressing hostility to migration as a whole.
2024, Immigration: How British Politics Failed, BBC documentary, episode 1 (2024)., Own words
[Remaining in the EU would be the] best option for the country and my constituents
Aug 20, 2019, BBC News, 20 August 2019, Own words
Another vote would be the democratic thing to do to move Brexit forward.
May 28, 2019, BBC News, 28 May 2019, Own words

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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.

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