Diane Abbott Quotes

#1. Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children
clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

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#2. 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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#3. There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

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#4. It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

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#5. I want to write a best-selling book.

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#6. You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

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#7. My father was a manual worker.

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

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#9. Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

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#10. I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

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#11. I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

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#12. Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

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#13. Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

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#14. 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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#15. My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

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

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

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#18. Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

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#19. Tackling childhood obesity is key.

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#20. White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

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#21. 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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#22. I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

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#23. I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

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#24. My family were from Jamaica.

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

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

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

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#30. 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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#31. I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

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#32. You learn from mistakes.

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#33. In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

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