Thornberry Complains Yet Again About Not Being a Minister on TV
75 days have now passed since Starmer appointed his army of ministers and reporters are still prompting Emily Thornberry whether she’s upset that she wasn’t put in Cabinet. Or any government job for that matter…
Most of the country will probably have heard the shtick by now as Kay Burley this morning asks Thornberry how she felt:
“Oh I was very disappointed, yeah. I was very disappointed. I’d continually been a member of the Shadow Cabinet for eight and a half years so I think I was the longest serving Shadow Cabinet member. So I had expected to be in the Cabinet and I’d spent a long time in Parliament sort of talking and now you’re in government you get a chance to actually do something, and my political heroes are people who actually achieve things, so I was really hoping to have the opportunity of doing that – but it wasn’t to be.“
Hopefully Emily will be too busy with her new job as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee to keep the moanathon going for too much longer. She today offers incisive analysis on the US election by claiming that if Trump became president he would “just say to Putin: ‘Well, okay, you’ve won.’ We can’t allow that to happen, we can’t allow Putin to move into Kyiv.” Heavy-hitting stuff…
