Diane Abbott

Quick Facts

Full Name	Diane Abbott
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 27, 1953(1953-09-27)
Age	71
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Diane Abbott Biography

Diane Abbott is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 27, 1953 in London, England, United Kingdom. British politician, who is famous for her time as a member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. She is an active Member of the Labour Party which allowed her to be a part of Parliamentary Shadow Cabinets. Labour Shadow Cabinets and also being the shadow home secretary.

She is famous for her support for Corbyn’s run for Labour Party Leader in 2015 and then served as the Shadow Secretary of State International Development under him.

Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British politician who served as the Shadow Home Secretary in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. As a member of the Labour Party, she has held various positions in successive Shadow Cabinets; she was the country’s first black female MP and is the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons.

Abbott had a brief relationship with Jeremy Corbyn, who later became the Labour leader, when he was a councillor in north London in the late 1970s,. In 1991 she married David P Ayensu-Thompson, a Ghanaian architect. They had one son together (James, born in 1992) before divorcing in 1993. Abbott chose her Conservative MP voting pair, Jonathan Aitken, as her son’s godfather.

She was raised and born in Paddington, London.

Diane Abbott Net Worth

Diane Abbott is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Diane Abbott 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a history student in Newnham College at Cambridge University. Her first job was as a reporter at Thames Television and TV AM. She then entered politics after she was appointed an official of the press for the Greater London Council. She was elected first to the Westminster City Council in 1982.

She is famous for being the first elected black member of Parliament, being elected in 1987.

Abbott was born to Jamaican parents in Paddington, London, in 1953. Her father was a welder and her mother was a nurse. She has stated in interviews that both of her parents left school at the age of 14. She attended Harrow County School for Girls (a grammar school) and then Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read history, achieving a lower second class degree (2:2). At Cambridge, she was tutored by historian Simon Schama.

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Who is Diane Abbott Dating?

According to our records, Diane Abbott married to David Thompson. As of December 1, 2023, Diane Abbott’s is not dating anyone.

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Abbott has served on a number of parliamentary committees on social and international issues and held shadow ministerial positions. For most of the 1990s she also served on the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons. She went on to serve on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

Facts & Trivia

Diane Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Diane Abbott celebrates birthday on September 27 of every year.

In 1996, Abbott was criticised after she claimed that at her local hospital “blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls” were unsuitable as nurses because they had “never met a black person before”. In response Marc Wadsworth, executive member of the Anti-Racist Alliance, who is half-Finnish, pointed out that the then-current Miss Finland, Lola Odusoga, is black, of Nigerian and Finnish descent. “She’s a black Finn like me,” he said. Abbott’s position was supported by fellow Labour MP Bernie Grant: “Bringing someone here from Finland who has never seen a black person before and expecting them to have some empathy with black people is nonsense. Scandinavian people don’t know black people—they probably don’t know how to take their temperature”.

What does Diane Abbott do?

Politician

What nationality is Diane Abbott?

British

What age is Diane Abbott?

69 years (September 27, 1953)

What is Diane Abbott date of birth?

September 27, 1953 (age 69 years)

Who is Diane Abbott husband?

David Thompson