54 Quotes by Diane Abbott

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.

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

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

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

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

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

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.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

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