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Wednesday, 23 June, 2010
Sitting down with UK's first black Labour leadership hopeful
Diane Abbott, the first black woman MP in the United Kingdom parliament, is now the first black person to be nominated for the leadership of the Labour Party. Outspoken, an avowed Socialist and respected by political opponents, she doubled her majority as MP for Stoke Newington in the May election, which saw her party removed from power.
She’s been sharing her political views with a selection of businessmen and bankers as a guest of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Geneva.
WRS’s Conor Lennon spoke to her after her speech and started by asking her if her candidacy is a serious challenge or a fig leaf for a supposedly progressive Labour Party:
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