Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott        (politician)
Born	Diane Julie Abbott 1953-09-27 London, England, UK
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge
Children	1 son
Spouse	Richard Thompson
Member of	Covid Action UK, Home Affairs Select Committee
Party	Labour
Shadow Home Secretary  In office 6 October 2016 - 5 April 2020 Preceded by Andy Burnham  Shadow Secretary of State for Health  In office 27 June 2016 - 6 October 2016  Shadow Secretary of State for International Development In office 13 September 2015 - 27 June 2016 Succeeded by Kate Osamor  Shadow Minister for Public Health In office 9 October 2010 - 8 October 2013 Succeeded by Luciana Berger  Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington In office 11 June 1987 - Present Preceded by Clement Freud, Mike Hancock, Patrick Jenkin, Roy Jenkins, Norman St John-Stevas, Enoch Powell, Nick Raynsford, Geoffrey Rippon

Diane Abbott is a British politician. She has been a Member of Parliament from the Labour Party for over 30 years. She is on the left of the Labour Party and was a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, serving in his Shadow Cabinet from beginning to end. She now sits on the backbenches.

 

A Document by Diane Abbott

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Diane Abbott – 2019 Speech on Julian Assange	Speech	11 April 2019	Wikileaks Julian Assange Chelsea Manning	We only have to look at the treatment of Chelsea Manning to see what awaits Julian Assange if he is extradited to the US

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Spiteful misogynistic bullying of Diane Abbott and left-wing staff laid out in internal party report	Article	13 April 2020	Lamiat Sabin	Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol, Executive Director for Elections Patrick Heneghan, and Mr McNicol’s office manager Tracey Allen mocked Diane Abbott and insinuated that she had faked illness towards the end of the 2017 General Election campaign.

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