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Abbott joins Thanet campaign to ‘help make history’
LABOUR MP Diane Abbott said she was “helping to make history” yesterday as she got behind her party’s effort to beat Ukip leader Nigel Farage in South Thanet.
Ms Abbott, who became Britain’s first black female MP in 1987, hit the campaign trail in the constituency with Labour candidate Will Scobie.
Mr Farage hand picked South Thanet as the safest route into Parliament.
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