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Diane Abbott [1953-0] British

Rank: 101
Politician, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom

Diane Julie Abbott is a British Labour Party politician who was appointed as Shadow Home Secretary in October 2016. 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.

Food, Christmas, Government, Health

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I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.		101
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.	Health	102
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.		103
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.		104
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.		105
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.	Food	106
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.		107
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.	Government	108
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.	Food	109
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.	Christmas	110
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.		111
Tackling childhood obesity is key.		112
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.		113
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.		114
I believe every abortion is a tragedy.		115
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.		116
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.		117
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.		118
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.		119
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.		120
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.		121
You learn from mistakes.		122
My family were from Jamaica.		123
I want to write a best-selling book.		124
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.		125
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.		126
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.		201
My father was a manual worker.		202
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.		203
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.		204

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