Meet Diane Abbotts Son: James Abbott Thompson

Meet Diane Abbott’s Son: James Abbott Thompson: Born on September 27, 1953, Diane Abbott, officially known as Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician.

Growing up, she attended Harrow County School for Girls before going to read History at Newnham College, Cambridge.

After joining and leaving 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 the Labour Party, she was elected to Westminster City Council in 1982 and then as an MP in 1987, being returned in every general election since.

She was a member of the Labour Party Black Sections, (Black Sections), a caucus in the United Kingdom, comprised of African, Caribbean, and Asian Labour Party members from 1983 to 1993.

Abbott was the first black woman elected to Parliament and is the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons. She has been the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987.

In 2010, she stood for the Labour Party leadership on a left-wing platform but lost to Ed Miliband, who appointed her Shadow Minister for Health in the Official Opposition frontbench.

Abbott later became Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development, then Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and eventually Shadow Home Secretary.

In April 2023, Diane Abbott hit major headlines after being suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism to the Observer, the party has said.

Her suspension follows remarks in which she suggested Jewish people do not face racism, but instead suffer prejudice similar to “redheads”.

Abbott wrote a letter to The Observer newspaper, in response to an article with the headline: “Racism in Britain is not black and white. It’s far more complicated.”

The Hackney North MP said she was responding to writer Tomiwa Owolade’s claims that “Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from ‘racism'”.

“They undoubtedly experience prejudice,” Ms Abbott wrote.

“This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable.

“It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice.

“But they are not all their lives subject to racism.”

The former shadow home secretary added: “In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people, and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus.

“In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.”

Suspending the whip means Abbott will not be allowed to represent Labour in the House of Commons, where she will now sit as an independent MP.

Shortly after the letter was published, Ms Abbott issued a statement in which she said she wished to “wholly and unreservedly withdraw my remarks and disassociate myself from them”.

Meet Diane Abbott’s Son: James Abbott Thompson

Diane Abbott has been blessed with a son, James Abbott Thompson born in October 1992. The former shadow home secretary shares her child with her ex-husband, David Thompson.

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