Dianne Julie Abbott 2004, following a complaint made by Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell, Abbott was investigated by the Committee on Standards and Privileges regarding payments she had received from the BBC. The committee found that she had failed to declare earnings of £17,300

in the Register of Members' Interests she had received for appearances on the television programme This Week. The Committee upheld the complaint and required Abbott to apologise to the House.

1996, Abbott was criticised after she claimed that at her local hospital "blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls" were unsuitable as nurses because they had "never met a black person before"

Bringing someone here from Finland who has never seen a black person before and expecting them to have some empathy with black people is nonsense. Scandinavian people don't know black people—they probably don't know how to take their temperature"

In 2010, in defending her decision to send her son to a private school, she asserted that "West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children", prompting criticism about this perceived slight on white mothers

On 4 January 2012, Abbott tweeted that: "White people love playing 'divide and rule' We should not play their game", which again led to widespread criticism including accusations of racism. Abbott ",intended to "make generalisations about white people".

May 2017 Sunday Times said Abbott backed the IRA in a 1984 interview with Labour & Ireland a prorepublican journal In the 1984 interview Abbott criticised Unionist population of Northern Ireland as an "enclave of white supremacist ideology comparable to white settlers in Zimbabwe

2017, Abbott was criticised after it emerged that in 2011, she charged the University of Birmingham £1,750 for a 50-minute speech. An online petition called on Abbott to repay the money to be used for educational purposes.

On 20 April 2019, Abbott was filmed consuming alcohol on a London Overground train, which is illegal. Abbott had a brief relationship with Jeremy Corbyn, who later became the Labour leader, when he was a councillor in north London in the late 1970s

In 1991 she married David P Ayensu-Thompson,a Ghanaian architect. They had one son together (James, born in 1992) before divorcing in 1993. Abbott chose her Conservative MP voting pair, Jonathan Aitken, as her son's godfather. The Racist Alcohol Abusing Terrorist Scamming MP