Diane Abbott

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. ”

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. ”

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. ”

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. ”

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

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child. ”

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

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ”

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

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. ”