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Posts Tagged: Emily Thornberry MP

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Long-Bailey seeks to make Lidington responsible for Trump

Corbyn’s new stand-in was strikingly self-possessed.

By Andrew Gimson | 5 June 2019 | 16 comments

WATCH: May’s deputy rejects Thornberry’s attempt to draw a link between Brexit and ‘New IRA’ violence

“I don’t think those murderers in Derry were motivated by any thoughts about the border or about customs arrangements.”

24 April 2019 | 42 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Lidington gives the impression that on Brexit the Government is becalmed

The Prime Minister’s deputy baffled inquiry with consummate professionalism.

By Andrew Gimson | 24 April 2019 | 38 comments

Clark Vasey: Welcome to the Blue Collar Conservatism relaunch

Esther McVey with the support of MPs from across the party is refreshing and renewing the project.

By Clark Vasey | 1 April 2019 | 52 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The odd couple, May and Corbyn, pretend nothing has changed

But their deputies look stricken, while the defectors are rejuvenated.

By Andrew Gimson | 20 February 2019 | 101 comments

WATCH: “If they are worried about No Deal, they have to vote for a deal”, Lidington tells Labour

He teases Thornberry that perhaps when she voted for Article 50 to be triggered she was “present but not involved”.

6 February 2019 | 23 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Thornberry claims we are being swept over the Niagara Falls

But neither she nor Lidington sounded as if they expect Brexit to end in disaster.

By Andrew Gimson | 6 February 2019 | 19 comments

Thornberry can’t “guarantee” her foreign policy won’t indulge human rights abusers when Corbyn does exactly that

The Shadow Foreign Secretary is making pledges her leader seems unlikely to honour.

By Mark Wallace | 6 February 2019 | 22 comments

Steven Edginton: The BBC’s Question Time last week. Abbott was the victim of her own rudeness – not of racism. As I saw at first-hand.

The only explanation I can find is that she mistakenly assumed I was just another Tory public school boy, to whom she did not need to bother giving the time of day.

By Steven Edginton | 20 January 2019 | 192 comments

Is the Marxist Shadow Chancellor really backing tax cuts for the rich?

The Budget has prompted further disarray in the Labour Party. But they do show a willingness to “compromise with the electorate”.

By Harry Phibbs | 31 October 2018 | 23 comments

WATCH: Thornberry defends Labour’s six Brexit tests

Marr puts it to her that they’re designed to ensure that the Government fails them – and have no other purpose.

14 October 2018 | 18 comments

Nick Hargrave: Cameron’s modernisation was necessary then. And an updated version is necessary now.

When you’re worried about your child’s school, politicians look remote when they sound more interested in acronym bingo on whether we should look more like Canada or Norway.

By Nick Hargrave | 13 October 2018 | 67 comments

Munira Mirza: Critiquing Islamist fundamentalist practice is not an ‘attack on Muslim women’

Johnson’s critics who accuse him of Islamophobia are either confused or disingenuous. Their tactics harm mainstream Muslims.

By Munira Mirza | 10 August 2018 | 118 comments

WATCH: “Get behind us…in the common interest, instead of carping from the sidelines”, Lidington tells Thornberry

“We have ended up with him proposing a dog’s Brexit,” the Shadow Foreign Secretary charges.

11 July 2018 | 134 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May and Corbyn remain unchallenged by their deputies

Thornberry gave no sign that she might be an improvement on the present Leader of the Opposition.

By Andrew Gimson | 11 July 2018 | 17 comments

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