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Originally Posted by Marulus
'In the beginning, some of it was sheer ignorance. I remember being shocked when a Labour MP asked me once whether we celebrated Christmas in Jamaica,' said Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington.
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He was probably thinking about Rastafarians, so it was hardly ignorance. A simple answer would have been, 'yes, we're mostly Christians'. Instead she was shocked and then harboured the grievance for years. No wonder there are only two of them in Westminster.