What is Diane Abbott?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = Diane Abbott | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} | image = Official portrait of Ms Diane Abbott crop 2.jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2017 | office = [[Mother of the House (United Kingdom)|Mother of the House]] | term_start = 5 July 2024 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Harriet Harman]] | successor = | office1 = [[Shadow Home Secretary]] | leader1 = [[Jeremy Corbyn]] | term_start1 = 6 October 2016 | term_end1 = 4 April 2020{{efn|On leave 7–18 June 2017, with [[Lyn Brown]] serving as acting shadow home secretary}} | predecessor1 = [[Andy Burnham]] | successor1 = [[Nick Thomas-Symonds]] | office2 = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Health]] | leader2 = [[Jeremy Corbyn]] | term_start2 = 27 June 2016 | term_end2 = 6 October 2016 | predecessor2 = [[Heidi Alexander]] | successor2 = [[Jonathan Ashworth]] | office3 = [[Shadow Secretary of State for International Development]] | leader3 = [[Jeremy Corbyn]] | term_start3 = 13 September 2015 | term_end3 = 27 June 2016 | predecessor3 = [[Mary Creagh]] | successor3 = [[Kate Osamor]] | office4 = [[Department of Health and Social Care|Shadow Minister for Public Health]] | leader4 = [[Ed Miliband]] | term_start4 = 9 October 2010 | term_end4 = 8 October 2013 | predecessor4 = [[Anne Milton]] | successor4 = [[Luciana Berger]] | office5 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br>for [[Hackney North and Stoke Newington]] | term_start5 = 11 June 1987 | term_end5 = | predecessor5 = [[Ernie Roberts]] | successor5 = | majority5 = 15,090 (36.9%) | birth_name = Di