Diane Abbott Quotes

The Labour Party doesn't support a second referendum

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.

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

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

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

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

There's no question women politicians get a level of abuse online which men don't get. New media and the anonymity has unleashed a really quite violent misogyny which I didn't see when I started in politics, although consistently women always get more severe abuse in the media than men.

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

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

I think that's what we were referencing when we talked about easy movement [of workers after the UK has left the EU's single market] - less bureaucracy; it's good for migrants but it's also good for business

The referendum vote will be honoured and we will come out of the EU next spring

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

I receive racist and sexist abuse online on a daily basis. I have had rape threats, death threats, and am referred to routinely as a bitch and/or nigger, and am sent horrible images on Twitter

The British people and British workers are paying a big price for chaotic Brexit

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