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Abbott 'serious' about leadership

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Labour MP Diane Abbott claims to be the first black woman in Europe to stand for a political leadership.

Political correspondent Norman Smith joined Ms Abbott in Manchester where she told him she thinks the coalition's cuts could put back race relations by a generation.


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