Emily Thornberry
United Kingdom
Labour
member of the 59th Parliament of the United Kingdom
government
Dame Emily Anne Thornberry is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2021 until the 2024 general election, and previously from 2011 to 2014. Thornberry has also served in a number of other senior positions on Labour's front bench, namely as Shadow Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2020, Shadow First Secretary of State from 2017 to 2020 and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade from 2020 to 2021.
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Sep 8, 2026
Center
Labour MP and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, responding to international crises like the Israel-Lebanon strikes.
Lib Dems look to her for balanced foreign policy but criticize Labour's lack of independent stance on Middle East peace.
Aug 22, 2026
Far Left
The chair of the foreign affairs select committee is urging the government to ban goods from the occupied West Bank, following the foreign secretary's rebuke of Israel over settlement construction.
Green and radical left activists see this as a test of Labour's commitment to Palestinian rights, but criticize Thornberry for not pushing for sanctions on Israel itself or recognizing the two-state solution's failure.