Thornberry ute ur leken – tre Labourkandidater kvar
Emily Thornberry kommer inte att bli brittiska oppositionspartiet Labours nästa ledare. Hon skrapade bara ihop stöd från 31 lokalavdelningar, vilket var två färre än vad som behövdes, skriver Sky News.
Thornberry har varit Labours utrikespolitiska talesperson sedan 2017. Hennes misslyckande innebär att det återstår tre kandidater: Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy och Rebecca Long-Bailey.
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Emily Thornberry
Wikipedia (en)
Emily Anne Thornberry (born 27 July 1960) is a British politician who has served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016, and Shadow First Secretary of State since 2017. She is a candidate for Leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election.
A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. Thornberry practised as a barrister from 1985 to 2005. She was first elected to Parliament in 2005, and served as Shadow Attorney General in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet from 2011 until she resigned in 2014 after sending a tweet that was described as "snobby". After Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 leadership election, Thornberry was appointed shadow employment minister. In January 2016, she was appointed shadow defence secretary, and in June 2016 she was appointed shadow foreign secretary.
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