Diane Abbott: ‘The abuse and the attacks have never made me falter’

The Labour MP, 64, talks about running the country as a civil servant, surviving racism at grammar school and staying away from TwitterI’ve always wanted a place at the table. My earliest memory is being put in my high chair while my parents were eating. I was there thinking: “Why am I not sitting with them?”I don’t know when I first experienced racism. At primary school I was famous for my essays, and I’d read to the point of obsession. In my first week at grammar