Emily Thornberry

We should waive fees for those taking equal pay claims; they are our whistleblowers and should be encouraged.

— Emily Thornberry

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.

— Emily Thornberry

Prosperity need not come at the expense of this country's proudest traditions as a beacon of justice.

— Emily Thornberry

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you…

— Emily Thornberry

Mum was on benefits for a few years. Then I failed the 11-plus and I went to the secondary modern. And that…

— Emily Thornberry

It is up to Labour to keep alive the belief that government should be for the whole nation and that no section…

— Emily Thornberry

AV does not bring you greater proportionality - and there is a tendency for parties to gang up on one of the…

— Emily Thornberry

The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence.

— Emily Thornberry

When the Tories came to power in 2010, the ground-breaking Equality Act had just become law. But the newly appointed Equalities Minister…

— Emily Thornberry

It's often been said that politics in Islington, in many ways, begins and ends with housing, and it's not hard to see…

— Emily Thornberry

While scrapping the HRA would severely curtail people's ability to seek legal redress in U.K. courts for violations of their fundamental rights,…

— Emily Thornberry

There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence…

— Emily Thornberry

If we were to allow the Chris Grayling and his cronies to tear up the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the…

— Emily Thornberry

We need to have a system whereby, when a victim walks into a police station, she can be confident that she will…

— Emily Thornberry

Even though I've had the odd terse word to say about Donald Trump, I still get invited to events at the U.S.…

— Emily Thornberry

Equal constituencies' sound fair. So why is Labour so against the constituencies bill and why do we call it gerrymandering? Because, like…

— Emily Thornberry

By creating a perception that the U.K. places a higher premium on striking commercial deals than it does on promoting and protecting…

— Emily Thornberry

I don't think you negotiate with people by going around telling them that they're like Nazi guards or it's all about prosecco.

— Emily Thornberry

We must apply the same standards to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt that we apply to Iran, Russia and…

— Emily Thornberry

The most prominent - and by far the most controversial - part of 'Help to Work' essentially forces people to take unpaid…

— Emily Thornberry

When one party is really unpopular, like the Conservatives in 1997, AV can really skew the result disproportionately against them.

— Emily Thornberry

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

— Emily Thornberry

The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of…

— Emily Thornberry

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's…

— Emily Thornberry

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people…

— Emily Thornberry

All the evidence shows that establishing the habit of voting as early as possible is a vital tool in making sure that…

— Emily Thornberry

When I was starting out as a barrister in the 1980s, Lord Denning was the most famous judge in the land, and…

— Emily Thornberry

The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law.

— Emily Thornberry

When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership…

— Emily Thornberry

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

— Emily Thornberry

We got evicted from our house in Guildford. We were chucked out and had nowhere to go. We ended up in social…

— Emily Thornberry

As I'm sure everyone would agree, carers who do the difficult job of looking after the elderly and vulnerable deserve to be…

— Emily Thornberry

The 'Welfare Reform and Work' Bill does nothing to address low wages, or underemployment, and I haven't even got started on how…

— Emily Thornberry

It's unfortunate that the U.K. and Europe don't have the kind of culture which esteems legal protections enforced by the courts in…

— Emily Thornberry

We need to build on our diplomatic networks, and the unrivalled expertise of our Foreign Office, to project a positive image for…

— Emily Thornberry

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes…

— Emily Thornberry

Unesco can rightly be claimed as one of Britain's greatest contributions to that global architecture of peace, and for Penny Mordaunt to…

— Emily Thornberry

Whether it's in Jobcentres or in Whitehall, young people are constantly coming up against a narrative that portrays them as lazy and…

— Emily Thornberry

Given that GPs are essentially a private part of our health care system, providing services independently of the rest of the health…

— Emily Thornberry

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud…

— Emily Thornberry