Diane Abbott Quotes

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

Sexism towards female MPs is sadly still commonplace

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

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

[We will table an amendment to reject the deal and] prevent the chaos of the UK crashing out of the EU

You have to start from an understanding that all white people are racist.

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

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

I put being a mother ahead of being a politician.

I want power. I suppose that's the story of my life - seeking power.

Ireland is our struggle. Every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us. A defeat in Northern Ireland would be a defeat indeed

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

I am surprised that they chose to bring in blonde, blue-eyed girls from Finland, instead of nurses from the Caribbean who know the language and understand British culture and institutions. [...] Are Finnish girls, who may never have met a black person before, let alone touched one, best suited to nurse in multicultural Hackney?

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

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.