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Emily Thornberry

Emily Thornberry

Member of Parliament of the United KingdomWikipedia

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Sep 23, 2026

GerdesHOST
11:47
Okay, so that's what was going on at the UN yesterday.
GerdesHOST
11:50
Okay, Jane Keefe posted this after Emily Thornberry, MP, I don't know what kind of member of parliament she is, which party or anything, but they're talking about a new national center for information defense is an opportunity to finally take on this very serious threat.
GerdesHOST
12:08
And Jane Keefe says, if your nation's government isn't allocating as much to fighting Russian disinformational attacks, As Russia is allocating to its disinformational attacks on your country, Moscow will guide your country into the abyss.
GerdesHOST
12:23
Yeah, I mean, an entire conference on fakes, lying about...
Mark AdderleyHOST
47:36
the anti-Semitic smear campaign, and he's taken money from the likes of Labour Friends of Israel and various donors, et cetera, et cetera, and has become a huge force and advocate for Israel.
Mark AdderleyHOST
47:47
He's also, some of you may remember him, anyone who's plugged into British politics, when we did a story some time ago, I think about a year, over a year ago, of Owen Jones being stonewalled by all the various MPs, David Lammy, I think even Emily Thornberry, At the Labour Party conference.
Mark AdderleyHOST
48:05
And he was
Nadia SawalhaHOST
48:05
banned from going to any more Labour
Ken MacdonaldHOST
21:23
Clive Betts.
Ken MacdonaldHOST
21:25
Chris Bryant, Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, Dan Carden, Al Khans, Stella Creasy, another surprise, I think, Angela Eagle, a surprise, Cliff Efford, Louise Haig, a member of the government, I'd be very surprised if she doesn't personally support assisted dying, John Healy and Lisa Nandy, again, I make the same comment in relation to her, and Emily Thornberry.
Ken MacdonaldHOST
21:49
Now, I had rather dismissed the possibility when we discussed this before that you were putting forward that Andy Burnham's intervention saying that he thought we should wait till we'd sorted out palliative care before we move forward with this.
Ken MacdonaldHOST
22:01
I would rather dismiss the idea that would have much effect.
Alex AndreouHOST
2:53
How do you attack that without looking like an absolute asshole?
Naomi SmithHOST
2:57
Yeah, and, and his local credentials, of course, as Emily Thornberry, friend of the show, naughtily tweeted, were of course when he was a candidate in Camden, uh-
Alex AndreouHOST
3:09
Oh, for the Liberal Democrats [laughs]
Naomi SmithHOST
3:10
... where his parents spoke for the Liberal Democrats.
Jamie EastHOST
8:31
The Israeli government has been accused of turning a blind eye to what is described by the UN as ethnic cleansing, with a report last week estimating at least thirty-three thousand Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in the last eighteen months.
Jamie EastHOST
8:43
The sanctions, which will ban settlement goods, were announced in partnership with France and Canada, and Labour's Dame Emily Thornberry, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, says it's about time.
Emily ThornberrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
8:53
I'm delighted that we've finally decided to do the right thing on this, but we stop all trade with the occupied territories, which the Israeli government is deliberately building on as fast as it can in order to try to, as to use their own words, "snuff out any chance of a Palestinian state."
Jamie EastHOST
9:10
The reaction from Israel was immediate and furious with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar accusing Miliband of spreading an outrageous lie and announcing a series of measures in retaliation, including the closure of the UK's consulate in East Jerusalem.
Martin DaubneyHOST
5:06
So if the Prime Minister is going to be consistent, is it time to start putting more migrants into these seats too? Well, tonight we also wanted to look into some of these particular Labour Party MPs.
Martin DaubneyHOST
5:19
One of the MPs on the list is Emily Thornberry.
Emily ThornberrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:22
We allowed them to demonise migrants and refugees, to cast them as the enemy, and that was wrong.
Emily ThornberrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:28
It was wrong not to be brave and not to make the positive case for migration, because there is one.
Kwasi KwartengPANELIST
10:20
be quite happy.
Kwasi KwartengPANELIST
10:21
I mean, a lot of them on this issue walk the walk.
Kwasi KwartengPANELIST
10:26
I think people like Diane Abbott, certainly Jeremy Corbyn, and some of the others you listed, probably Emily Thornberry, I'm not so sure about her.
Kwasi KwartengPANELIST
10:33
They wouldn't have a problem with having more asylum seekers in their constituency.
Jamie EastHOST
0:52
The Israeli government has been accused of turning a blind eye to what is described by the UN as ethnic cleansing, with a report last week estimating at least 33,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in the last 18 months.
Jamie EastHOST
1:04
The sanctions which will ban settlement goods were announced in partnership with France and Canada, and Labour's Dame Emily Thornberry, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, says it's about time.
Jamie EastHOST
1:13
I'm
Emily ThornberrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:13
delighted that we've finally decided to do the right thing on this, but we stop all trade with the occupied territories, which the Israeli government is deliberately building on as fast as it can in order to try to, to use their own words, snuff out any chance of a Palestinian state.
Nadia SawalhaHOST
10:01
This is, this is who, uh, these are the spo- one of the spokespeople for Israel off the back of our prime minister in our country, our own country, saying we are not going to play a part in funding this illegal settlement.
Nadia SawalhaHOST
10:18
They've also, they're gonna put, Emily Thornberry this morning was saying they're gonna put hefty fines on businesses-
Mark AdderleyHOST
10:23
Yes
Nadia SawalhaHOST
10:23
... because it's up to the businesses not to buy from them.

14 MINS LATER

Mark AdderleyHOST
24:46
He'll get shot down in flames.
Mark AdderleyHOST
24:48
It'll work for the- Those lot who went to the Greens, and it might win us a by-election, and then we can sort of worry about it then
Nadia SawalhaHOST
24:53
Well, Emily Thornberry was asked about that yesterday on Channel 4, and she went, "Absolutely not."
Mark AdderleyHOST
24:58
Yeah.
Paul AdamsCORRESPONDENT
5:33
But there was plenty of support in the House for the government's new dramatic shift in policy.
Paul AdamsCORRESPONDENT
5:38
Labour's Dame Emily Thornberry, who has pushed hard for such steps, said she was delighted.
Emily ThornberrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:43
At last.
Emily ThornberrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:46
I'm so very happy to finally see a British government, a Labour British government, finally doing the right thing and taking a strong stance against the illegal building of settlements in the occupied territories of Palestine.
Callum MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:10
Liberal Democrats have called for a trade ban for years and asked the government to declare Israel's occupation in Palestine as unlawful.
Alicia McCarthyHOST
5:18
And the Labour chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Dame Emily Thornberry, was also enthusiastic.
Alicia McCarthyHOST
5:24
At last.
Emily ThornberrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:27
I'm so very happy to finally see a British government A Labour British government finally doing the right thing and taking a strong stance against the illegal building of settlements in the occupied territories of Palestine.

6 MINS LATER

Christina CooperCORRESPONDENT
11:52
But she had a warning.
Jess PhillipsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
11:53
When we remove the UK market we will send it somewhere else in the world and I ask the Secretary of State to work with partners across the world to make sure that while we lead the world we're not standing alone for too long.
Christina CooperCORRESPONDENT
12:10
The Conservative Dame Caroline Dynage, who chairs the Culture Committee, said it was unforgivable that major tech companies could innovate quickly on new products but so slowly on children's
Caroline DinenageSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
12:20
safety.

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