Labour leadership: Emily Thornberry fails to make it on to ballot

Shadow foreign secretary just misses out on getting backing from the required 33 constituency parties

Emily Thornberry’s hopes of leading the Labour party are over after she failed to make it on to the final members’ ballot.

Just hours before the deadline closed on Friday night it became apparent that she would fail to get the backing from the required 33 constituency Labour parties to send her through to the last round.

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