Thornberry fumes at Starmer snub

Uh oh. Not everyone in Sir Keir’s Labour party is in celebration mode right now. The Prime Minister has finished dishing out government roles and one MP in particular has voiced her unhappiness about not receiving a position. Passed over for a government post, Emily Thornberry has taken to Twitter to opine on her snub from Starmer. The new PM has instead opted to make Richard Hermer KC – a lawyer who represented Gerry Adams – his attorney general over Thornberry, despite her comfortable win in Islington South last week and her years of experience in the shadow cabinet.

In a less than humble statement, the Labour MP and former shadow attorney general wrote:

After eight-and-a-half unbroken years in the shadow cabinet, a longer record of service than anyone else in that time, I have always worked my hardest to keep the Labour party united, support our candidates across the country, take the fight to the Tories and put a positive case to the British people about what we would do differently.