Yesterday Emily Thornberry accused Sky News‘s Dermot Murnaghan of sexism for asking her to name the French foreign minister. While the shadow Foreign secretary has since been the subject of much ridicule over the claims, she can take heart that some comrades still have her back. Step forward George Galloway.
Galloway has written a blog post on his website in which he defends Thornberry. The former Labour MP says she was ‘right to complain’ about Murnaghan’s questioning — though not for the reason she put forward:
‘I’m not Emily Thornberry’s biggest fan, and she should have known the name of the French Foreign Minister (whom Boris Johnson had just met) and both the gender and name of the President of South Korea (who had just threatened the nuclear annihilation of North Korea in one of the world’s most dangerous stand-offs). But she was right to complain about the interview conducted by Sky News’s Dermot Murnaghan though not for the reasons she stated.’
Galloway claims that although Thornberry was ‘right to infer that no Tory minister would have been subjected by him to such a “pub quiz”’, this is not because she is a woman but because she is Labour:
‘But, and here is something most others have missed.
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