Thornberry joins Bridget Phillipson and Bell Ribeiro-Addy in having said she will stand
Thornberry joins Bridget Phillipson and Bell Ribeiro-Addy in having said she will stand
Emily Thornberry, the chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, has confirmed that she is standing to be Labour’s deputy leader.
In a statement on social media, she says:
I’m running for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
We fought hard for a Labour government. But we’ve made mistakes and must listen.
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