The first black woman MP Daniela Caramanuta presents Diane Abbott The first black woman MP

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Diane Abbott and her mother a nurse. Her father was a welder

Diane Abbott and then Newnham College, Cambridge. She attended Harrow County Grammar School for Girls Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott Warning : Boring stuff Administration trainee at the Home Office A Race Relation Officer at the National Council for Civil Liberties Warning : Boring stuff Researcher and reporter at Thames Television A press officer at Greater London Council Head of Press and Public Relations at Lambeth Council

Diane Abbott Her political career began in 1982 when she was elected to Westminster City Council serving until 1986. In 1987 she was elected to the House of Common as MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington.

Diane Abbott She has been seen as a “maverick, a free thinker, willing to rebel against the party machine”.

Diane Abbott Children`s health Maternity services Tobacco She was later appointed Shadow Minister for Public health, taking shadow responsibility for a range of issues including: Children`s health Maternity services Tobacco Sexual health Alcohol abuse Nursing Obesity

Abbott has built up a high profile within media. Diane Abbott Abbott has built up a high profile within media. Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo have known each other since school.

Diane Abbott Abbott’s decision in 2003 to send her son to the private City of London School, which herself described as “indefensible” and “intellectually incoherent” caused controversy and criticism.

Diane Abbott In 2004 Abbott was investigated by the Committee on Standards and Privileges regarding payment she had received from the BBC. £17.300

Diane Abbott In 1988, she claimed, at a black studies conference in Philadelphia, that “the British invented racism”. Diane Abbott referred to David Cameron and Nick Clegg as “two posh white boys from the Home Counties” in May 2010.

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She married David Thompson, a Ghanaian architect, in 1991. Diane Abbott She married David Thompson, a Ghanaian architect, in 1991.