Emily Thornberry throws her hat into ring for Labour leadership
Exclusive: shadow foreign secretary says she warned party leaders going to polls would be ‘act of catastrophic political folly’
Emily Thornberry has declared she is entering the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn, revealing she warned the Labour leadership that backing a Brexit election would be an “act of catastrophic political folly”.
The shadow foreign secretary set out her pitch to be the next Labour leader in an article for the Guardian, arguing she has already “pummelled” Boris Johnson across the dispatch box and knows how to exploit his failings.