Diane Abbott

Elected in 1987 as the first Black woman MP, alongside Bernie Grant, Paul Boateng and Keith Vaz, Abbott changed who Parliament represented. She has served Hackney North and Stoke Newington continuously since and became Mother of the House in 2024. She has also been the target of a scale of online abuse that Amnesty found exceeded that of any other woman MP before the 2017 election, which shaped later debates on MPs' security. She has twice had the Labour whip suspended over remarks about racism.