Bernie Grant
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Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant was a British politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000. He was a member of the Labour Party.
Grant's funeral Order of Service
Blue plaque dedicated to Grant at Tottenham Old Town Hall
Diane Abbott
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Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament, and in
Bernie Grant
…since the Liberal Peter McLagan in the 19th century, all of them members of the Labour Party Black Sections movement, being elected at the same time as Diane Abbott and Paul Boateng, as well as Britain's first British Asian MP since the 1920s, Keith Vaz. Grant later stood for the deputy leadership of the Labour…
Official portrait, 2017
Abbott speaking at the New Statesman hustings for the 2010 Labour Party leadership election
Abbott at a Jeremy Corbyn leadership rally in August 2016
Abbott at a rally in Trafalgar Square in 2016