Ms Diane Abbott

Voted AYE on: Privilege

Diane Abbott voted AYE on 'Privilege' (223-335, defeated)

Voted AYE on: Privilege

Diane Abbott voted AYE on 'Privilege' (223-335, defeated)

Security Vetting

The Prime Minister has gone on at considerable length about process and procedure, but ordinary people do not really care about process and procedure; they want transparency, and they want to know that they can have confidence in the words of elected politicians like all of us in this Chamber. It was in the ’90s that Peter Mandelson had to resign from the Cabinet for the first time, because of his dealings with the millionaire Geoffrey Robinson. A few years later, he had to resign from the Cabin

Spoke in debate: Security Vetting

Parliamentary appearance by Ms Diane Abbott

Middle East

The Iranian regime is a threat to us all, not least to its own population. I implore Ministers to remember the importance of a debate in Parliament, just as we had on Iraq, if we move further in our involvement with Trump’s war.

Spoke in debate: Middle East

Parliamentary appearance by Ms Diane Abbott

Spoke in debate: Middle East

Parliamentary appearance by Ms Diane Abbott

Middle East

The Prime Minister will be aware that very many of our constituents remember the Iraq war, and they will have noted the similarities with this war: both in the middle east and both illegal. Of course, the current Iranian regime is horrible, violent, murderous and a threat to international order, but does he accept that our constituents are not prepared to see this country dragged into another war of the nature of the Iraq war?

Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving

The Secretary of State will be aware how traumatic it is for a child to grow up with special educational needs and to support such a child. She will also be aware that disproportionate numbers of those children come from marginalised communities, and of those parents’ anxiety that these reforms will mean, in the long run, that children will lose access to support that they are legally entitled to now. The Secretary of State has said that she wants to reform the SEN system once and for all, but w

Spoke in debate: Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving

Parliamentary appearance by Ms Diane Abbott

Venezuela

Nobody in this Chamber wants to defend the regime of Maduro, but what some of us want to do is to stand up for the importance of a rules-based international order. I might add that because my parents were born overseas, I take the question of national sovereignty extremely seriously. We cannot have a situation where a country, because it is bigger and stronger, walks into a smaller country, snatches its political leadership—whatever people think of that political leadership—helicopters it out an

Spoke in debate: Venezuela

Parliamentary appearance by Ms Diane Abbott

Venezuela

Blithe. I know that the Opposition are blithe about what Trump is doing, but let me say this: there will be countries that will look at Trump’s attitude and carelessness towards issues of sovereignty and think, “What happens if we have that threat? Who will be willing to stand up for us? Who will be willing to stand up for our national sovereignty?” As far as I have heard thus far, it will not necessarily be our Ministers. And there will be individuals—

Venezuela

My question is: what would the Foreign Secretary say to British voters—ordinary British voters; not left-wing British voters in particular—who do not understand why a British Prime Minister is not willing to stand up for an international rules-based order and is not willing to defend national sovereignty?