Diane Abbott Quotes

I think the public sector cuts have the potential to set back race relations and black and ethnic minority communities by a generation.

I think politicians complaining about the media is like sailors complaining about the weather.

I respect the result of the referendum and no-one wanted to thwart it in a perverse kind of way. But we need to be clear, this is not a Tony Benn Brexit, this is Donald Trump Brexit, and it's got a very ugly side.

Numbers are a polite way of expressing hostility to migration as a whole.

I hope ex-members will continue to work with Labour on issues like homelessness, the benefit system, the NHS and most of all fighting this Tory Brexit

Ever since my colleagues and I have been in the house, there have been a series of incidents that give rise to concern. Our visitors are sometimes treated less than politely and deliberately misled … Visitors and we ourselves have been jostled. We have been challenged by attendants as to our identity in an unsubtle attempt to embarrass us. These occurrences are too frequent and have been going on for too long.

I will argue for the right of the electorate to vote on any deal that is finally agreed.

Another vote would be the democratic thing to do to move Brexit forward.

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

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.

Migrants from outside the EU should be treated with the same fairness as EU migrants after Brexit.

White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We should not play their game.

We don't want to see the break-up of families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.

The Labour Party doesn't support a second referendum

I'm in politics to be a voice for people who don't have a voice.