“If you want people to participate and be interested, part of that is to have a political class that looks like the population as a whole.”

— Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott in Jersey for Women in Politics talk https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-28044487 BBC News (1 July 2014)
2010s, 2014

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