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"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"
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Diane Abbott[We will table an amendment to reject the deal and] prevent the chaos — Diane Abbott
"[We will table an amendment to reject the deal and] prevent the chaos of the UK crashing out of the EU"
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Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament, and in 2024 became its longest-serving female MP, earning the title Mother of the House. A former Shadow Home Secretary and Privy Counsellor, Abbott has been a prominent figure on the Labour left and a
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"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."
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"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"
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"Migrants from outside the EU should be treated with the same fairness as EU migrants after Brexit."
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"I’m a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children."
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"The Labour Party doesnt support a second referendum"
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