Emily Thornberry

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Emily Anne Thornberry (born 27 July 1960) is a senior British politician who has served in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet since 2016 as Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow First Secretary of State since 2017. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005.

Thornberry served 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 to 2014 after posting a tweet that was described as'snobby'.

Thornberry was named Shadow Minister of State for Employment after Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 leadership race.

She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Defense in January 2016, and Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in June 2016.

Early life

Thornberry was born in Guildford, Surrey, on July 27, 1960. Sallie Thornberry (née Bone), a teacher and Cedric Thornberry, as a student of international law at the London School of Economics, and later a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General. She is an Irish citizen and Irish passport holder due to her father's birth in Belfast. Thornberry's parents divorced when she was seven, and she and her mother and two brothers were forced to leave their house. After this, she ate all the free school meals and looted food boxes, and their cats were euthanized to save money. Her mother later became a Labour councillor and mayor (representing Stoke in Guildford from 1983 to 2003), and her father ran for Guildford in the 1966 general election.

She failed the eleven-plus exam and attended a secondary modern college. When she was fifteen, she went to live with her father until he left the United Nations without warning when he was seventeen years old. As well as resitting her O-Levels and taking her A-Levels, she served as a cleaner and a barmaid in London. She went on to study law at the University of Kent in Canterbury, graduating in 1982, and then being a full officer. She was called to the Bar in Gray's Inn and served as a barrister specialising in human rights legislation from 1985 to 2005 under Michael Mansfield of Tooks Chambers.

In 1985, Thornberry joined the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Personal life

Thornberry has lived in Islington since the early 1990s. Christopher Nugee, of Wilberforce Chambers in Tower Hamlets, married her mother in July 1991, and the couple have two sons and a daughter. Nugee later became Queen's Counsel and then a High Court Judge after being knighted, but does not use the term Lady Nugee. Nugee later became a Lord Justice of Appeal. They have lived on Richmond Crescent, Barnsbury, where Tony Blair also lived until the 1997 general election, residing in the same day as the Blairs, since 1993. Thornberry also owns properties in Guildford and South London; her property "is estimated to be worth £4.6 million."

Thornberry and Nugee had sent their son to Dame Alice Owen's partially selective state school 14 miles (23 km) from their house and outside their constituency in April 2005. The school was once located in Islington and had reserved a quota of 10% of its spaces for Islington students. Thornberry's appointment was condemned by the Labour Party, and as a result, the group was chastised over the situation. "I celebrate her excellent sense as a parent and deplode her hypocrisy as a politician," Chris Woodhead, the former chief inspector of schools, said. When will those who champion comprehensive education apply the same logic of their political messages to their children? Thornberry's daughter attended the same school as her older sister.

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Political career

Thornberry ran as the Labour candidate in Canterbury at the 2001 general election, but he was defeated by Conservative incumbent Julian Brazier.

Thornberry was selected as the Labour candidate for Islington South and Finsbury in the 2005 general election following Chris Smith's decision not to run again. An all-women shortlist of potential candidates was selected. She was elected to Parliament with a majority of 484, barely beating the Liberal Democrats. Nick Smith (who was later elected to Parliament as a member of Blaenau Gwent) served as her election agent.

Thornberry made her maiden speech in the House of Commons on May 24, 2005. She has served on the Legisl Committee and served on the Communities and Local Government Select Committee during the 2005-2010 Parliament. She has served as vice chair of both the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Choice and Sexual Health Group.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Philip Mawer, Jr.,chastised Thornberry in 2006 for inserting a quote from herself into a news release by the Electoral Commission. She was not found to have breached the Parliamentary code of conduct.

Thornberry's top priorities since becoming an MP have been in health, housing, the climate, and equality. She has also spoken out in Islington, highlighting the need for more affordable housing. Thornberry introduced the Housing Association Bill in 2006, a Private Member's Bill that sought to expand the influence of housing association tenants over their landlords. The Cave Review validated several of the bill's theories. Thornberry, a former Earth and World Wide Fund for Nature) campaigned for a Climate Change Bill and a Marine Bill, among other environmental issues. Thornberry received the ePolitix Award for Environment Champion of the Year in 2006, after being nominated by WWF.

Thornberry endorsed a reform in the legislation that allowed single women and lesbian couples to request vitro fertilisation therapy.

She was named as a ministerial aide in the Department of Energy and Climate Change in 2009 and attended the Copenhagen Summit with Joan Ruddock and Ed Miliband in December.

Thornberry, the Liberal Democrats' top candidate in England for the 2010 general election, was recalled in May 2010 as MP for Islington South and Finsbury with a larger majority.

In May 2010, Thornberry was promoted to Shadow Minister for the Department of Energy and Climate Change. She shadowed Charles Hendry in this role. Thornberry missed out on a spot in Labour's shadow cabinet and was later elected by Labour MPs by a single vote. She was then promoted to the position of shadow care minister under shadow health minister John Healey.

Thornberry, the coalition government's inaction over failing care home operator Southern Cross, has called for an investigation and that if the operator fails, the government will implement a plan B. She chastised the government over the Winterbourne View care home abuse scandal, urging for an investigation into the matter. Thornberry surveyed all the local government administrators of adult social care in April 2011 and highlighted the strains on elderly care as a result of the coalition government's cuts to local authority budgets.

Thornberry was elected shadow attorney general in October 2011 after attending shadow cabinet meetings. Thornberry has requested Dominic Grieve's inability to provide interpreters for court hearings, and has asked the attorney general to ensure that claims of bribery concerning Bernie Ecclestone were properly investigated.

Thornberry sacked David Cameron over his wrong information about salaries at Islington Council, protesting government policies that Thornberry claimed to have exacerbated child poverty in Islington, and answering over 1,000 inquiries a month from constituents.

Thornberry resigned in her shadow cabinet post on November 20, 2014, less than a year after polls closed in the Rochester and Strood by-election. She had been chastised early on the day after posting a snap of a house in the constituency adorned with three flags of St. George and the owner's white van parked outside on the driveway under the heading "Image from #Rochester," sparking allegations of snobbery. She was chastised by fellow Labour MPs, including leader Ed Miliband, who said that her tweet expressed a "sense of disrespect" and Simon Danczuk, who said the party had been "hijacked by the north London liberal elite," and Chris Bryant, who said it contradicted the "first rule of politics."

Thornberry was one of 36 Labour MPs to vote Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the 2015 Labour leadership election, although she later stated that she would support Yvette Cooper.

She was named as the shadow minister for work by the new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in September 2015. Maria Eagle was promoted to shadow defense secretary in January 2016 and replaced Maria Eagle. Thornberry recommended that the army be funded rather than the UK's Trident nuclear program. Thornberry was interviewed by the British Forces Broadcasting Service, where she defended her appointment and said she had "quite a lot more experience than most expected." I was made an honorary lieutenant colonel [sic] when I first started doing court-martials [sic], so I have a certain amount of military experience." Thornberry's role as shadow defence secretary, assuaged, a review of defence policy, including the role of the nuclear deterrent, which was postponed following the 2016 United Kingdom's membership referendum. Thornberry wondered what "Defcon One," a status of the United States nuclear defense rating, referred to during a private Labour discussion about the nuclear deterrent, meant.

After Corbyn fired Hilary Benn, Thornberry was promoted to Shadow Foreign Secretary in June 2016. She served as Shadow Brexit Secretary on a temporary basis until Keir Starmer took over as Shadow Brexit Secretary later this year. She accused Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan of sexism after he begged her to name French minister of foreign affairs and international development, Jean-Marc Ayrault, and South Korea's president, which she was unable to do. Following the 2017 general election, she was named Shadow First Secretary of State, effectively acting as Corbyn's No. 2 in this role.

Thornberry condemned Britain's participation in the Saudi Arabian-led assault in Yemen against the Shia Houthis. "While Saudi Arabia will remain a valuable strategic, intelligence, and economic partner in the years to come," she said, "our assistance for their forces in Yemen must be suspended until the suspects of international humanitarian law in the conflict have been fully investigated and independently investigated." Thornberry said in May 2018 that support in Syria for Bashar al-Assad, the country's president, had been "underestimated" in the West. Thornberry said of Theresa May's government's reaction to Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance in October 2018 as "too little, too late." "Imagine how this government would have responded if either Russia or Iran abducted–and in all likelihood murdered–one of their dissident journalists within another country's sovereign territory."

Thornberry was the first woman to declare that she would run for leader of the Labour Party after Corbyn announced that he was stepping down as leader. On Sunday, defeated Labour MP Caroline Flint appeared on Sophy Ridge and accused Thornberry of saying that Brexit voters in Northern England were "stupid." Thornberry appeared on ITV News and accused Flint of'making up shit about her' and threatened to take court action. She was eventually voted out of the leadership race after failing to receive enough nominations from constituency parties or affiliated organizations.

Thornberry condemned the government's conduct after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in the 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike. She shed no tears over the death but was afraid of escalating tensions in the area.

On the election of Keir Starmer as the Labour Party's leader, Thornberry was named Shadow Foreign Secretary by Lisa Nandy. Thornberry herself was not fired from the Official Opposition frontbench, but instead she took on a new frontbench role, becoming the new Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade. "It's been a pleasure to work with Barry Gardiner these past four years," she said on Twitter. I hope I can take the fight to the government on International Trade as effectively as he did, and I'll be very fortunate to have his counsel."

Thornberry voted for the European Union (Future Relations) Act 2020 in late December 2020, in accordance with Labour Chief Whip's parliamentary strategy.

Thornberry was appointed Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales by the reshuffle in November 2021.

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