People don't seem to be safe inside Pentonville, and now it transpires inmates can escape. That is the final straw. If they… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
All the evidence shows that establishing the habit of voting as early as possible is a vital tool in making sure that… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
It has always been the case that people on out-of-work benefits have to apply for more or less any job they can… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Taxpayers' and 'people on benefits' are not two separate and distinct groups of people. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people's lives. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example,… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you're either an uber-loyalist babe, or you're a rebel. There isn't any… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most prominent - and by far the most controversial - part of 'Help to Work' essentially forces people to take unpaid… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms enshrined in… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Given that GPs are essentially a private part of our health care system, providing services independently of the rest of the health service, NHS… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
It's often been said that politics in Islington, in many ways, begins and ends with housing, and it's not hard to see why. Despite… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
We have all these strong men in politics - whether it's Brazil, or the Philippines, or Trump, or Putin. They're all big men: it's… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
People don't seem to be safe inside Pentonville, and now it transpires inmates can escape. That is the final straw. If they don't have… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
When one party is really unpopular, like the Conservatives in 1997, AV can really skew the result disproportionately against them. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
All the evidence shows that establishing the habit of voting as early as possible is a vital tool in making sure that it's maintained… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence of the… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
