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Shadow Public Health Minister brands government’s plans to plough ahead with controversial abortion changes as ‘unwanted, undemocratic and unsubstantiated with evidence.’

Diane Abbott MP says the government has not demonstrated how it can effectively ring fence the money and stop cash-strapped councils from diverting the money to related issues like social care.

During a debate in Westminster, Labour's Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) welcomed the Mary Portas review, and spoke about one of its recommendations, which pertains to betting shops and the planning regulations that apply to them.

Diane Abbott MP, the Shadow Public Health Minister, demands proper leadership from Andrew Lansley MP, the Health Secretary, over the breast implant scandal

Diane Abbott, Labour’s Shadow Public Health Minister, warns of the sexualisation of pre-adolescent girls, following the release of figures showing more than one in four young women first have sex below the age of 16.

Diane Abbott the Shadow Public Health minister called for radical and urgent action on childhood obesity, warning that the government was failing to get even the basic policy measures right.

Urging the government to ‘get a grip’ on binge-drinking, Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Public Health Minister, warned of the cost to the NHS of the government’s inaction.

Diane Abbott, Labour’s Shadow Public Health Minister, blasts Andrew Lansley as the government begins to privatise maternity services, starting in NHS Wirral

Diane Abbott, the MP for Hackney, who will shortly publish her own account of the riots, has warned that very little progress has been made in addressing the root causes of the riots and that the likelihood of further rioting was likely.

Diane Abbott MP, Shadow Health Minister has welcomed Nick Clegg’s proposal to launch an inquiry into the problems ethnic minority entrepreneurs have with the banks