UK MPs Vote to Reject Call for ‘Immediate Cease-Fire’ in Gaza Strip
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Diane Abbott MP is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987.
Diane Julie Abbott MP is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020. The first black woman elected to Parliament, she is the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons.
Born in Paddington to a British Jamaican family, Abbott attended Harrow Grammar School before going up to read History at Newnham College, Cambridge. After joining the Civil Service, she worked as a reporter for Thames Television and TV-am before becoming a press officer for the Greater London Council. Joining Labour, she was elected as a Councillor on Westminster City Council in 1982 and then as an MP in 1987, being returned in every general election since.
A supporter of Jeremy Corbyn’s bid to become Labour Leader in 2015, Abbott became Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, then Shadow Health Secretary, and eventually Shadow Home Secretary.
Diane Abbott is 70 years old (birth date September 27, 1953).
Diane Abbott was born in London, UK.
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