Quotes from Diane Abbott

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

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

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

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

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

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

My family were from Jamaica.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

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

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

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

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.