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|alma_mater= Newnham College, [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]]

|alma_mater= Newnham College, [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]]

|party= Labour

|party= Non-affiliated<br/>[[Labour Party|Labour]] (until 2023)

|office= Shadow Home Secretary of the United Kingdom

|office= Shadow Home Secretary of the United Kingdom

|term_start= 6 October 2016

|term_start= 6 October 2016

|succeeded= Nick Thomas-Symonds

|succeeded= Nick Thomas-Symonds

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'''Diane Julie Abbott''' (b. 1953) is a British [[far-left]] [[career politician]] and [[champagne socialist]]. A member of the [[Labour Party]], she has represented the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington since the 1987 [[Conservative]] landslide under [[Margaret Thatcher]], who obliterated Abbott in a 1990 Prime Minister's Questions.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5axvTRVZI YouTube, "Margaret Thatcher Vs Diane Abbott"</ref> Serving as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016-2020, a post in which she was notorious for [[incompetence]], Abbott is also a [[Failure|failed]] Labour leadership candidate. She is highly unpopular with the British public; as of late 2020, she was about as popular in the UK as [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="yougov" />

'''Diane Julie Abbott''' (b. 1953) is a British [[far-left]] [[career politician]] and [[champagne socialist]]. A suspended member of the [[Labour Party]], she has represented the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington since the 1987 [[Conservative]] landslide under [[Margaret Thatcher]], who obliterated Abbott in a 1990 Prime Minister's Questions.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5axvTRVZI YouTube, "Margaret Thatcher Vs Diane Abbott"</ref> Serving as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016-2020, a post in which she was notorious for [[incompetence]], Abbott is also a [[Failure|failed]] Labour leadership candidate. She is highly unpopular with the British public; as of late 2020, she was about as popular in the UK as [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="yougov" />

With a long history of politicizing race, Abbott is known for her [[racist]] comments about [[Finnish]] nurses and white people in general.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8994068/Diane-Abbott-White-people-love-playing-divide-and-rule.html Diane Abbott: 'White people love playing divide and rule']</ref> According to Labour leader [[Keir Starmer]], Abbott's writings are [[antisemitic]].<ref name="JCstarmer" /> She has also expressed support for [[IRA]] [[terrorists]],<ref name="abbottira84" /> praised Chinese dictator [[Mao Zedong]],<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2018/02/17/does-left-still-love-communism/ Why does the Left still love communism?]</ref> spread suspected [[Russian]] [[disinformation]] [[conspiracy theories]] to frame political opponents,<ref name="FBNHS" /><ref name="corbynrussia" /> made insensitive comments about Islamic terrorist attacks and appeared in livestream with a [[Uyghur genocide]] denier.

With a long history of politicizing race, Abbott is known for her [[racist]] comments about [[Finnish]] nurses and white people in general.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8994068/Diane-Abbott-White-people-love-playing-divide-and-rule.html Diane Abbott: 'White people love playing divide and rule']</ref> According to Labour leader [[Keir Starmer]], Abbott's writings are [[antisemitic]].<ref name="JCstarmer" /> She has also expressed support for [[IRA]] [[terrorists]],<ref name="abbottira84" /> praised Chinese dictator [[Mao Zedong]],<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2018/02/17/does-left-still-love-communism/ Why does the Left still love communism?]</ref> spread suspected [[Russian]] [[disinformation]] [[conspiracy theories]] to frame political opponents,<ref name="FBNHS" /><ref name="corbynrussia" /> made insensitive comments about Islamic terrorist attacks and appeared in livestream with a [[Uyghur genocide]] denier.