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

- Diane Abbott

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

- Diane Abbott

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be ni…

- Diane Abbott

White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

- Diane Abbott

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

- Diane Abbott

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

- Diane Abbott

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest …

- Diane Abbott

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.

- Diane Abbott

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

- Diane Abbott