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In the 1987, in which the [[Thatcherite]] [[Conservatives]] won their third victory in a row in a landslide, Diane Abbott won the seat of Hackney North and Stoke Newington for the Labour Party with 48% of the vote. She took over from the retiring Ernie Roberts (1912-1994) who performed 4 points better than her in the 1983 election.
In the 1987, in which the [[Thatcherite]] [[Conservatives]] won their third victory in a row in a landslide, Diane Abbott won the seat of Hackney North and Stoke Newington for the Labour Party with 48% of the vote. She took over from the retiring Ernie Roberts (1912-1994) who performed 4 points better than her in the 1983 election.
=== 1990s ===
In 1996, Abbott made a [[racist]] attack on her local hospital for hiring "blonde, blue eyed Finnish girls" who have "never met a black person".<ref name="expressaug242013">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I606hlVBoZ0J:https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/424355/Diane-Abbott-lets-slip-Labour-s-real-immigration-policy&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Diane Abbott lets slip Labour's real immigration policy]</ref>
=== 2010s ===
=== 2010s ===