Diane Abbott

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* - Present
Preceded by	Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, Tony Blair, George Brown, Lyn Brown, Andy Burnham, James Callaghan, Yvette Cooper, David Davis, Ian Gilmour, Chris Grayling, Dominic Grieve, Roy Hattersley, Roy Hattersley, Quintin Hogg, Michael Howard, Roy Jenkins, Keith Joseph, Oliver Letwin, Jim Prior, Merlyn Rees, Jack Straw, Peter Thorneycroft, Patrick Gordon Walker, William Whitelaw, Ann Widdecombe, Shirley Williams"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.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

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

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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