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Emily Thornberry Quotes

born 1960

Emily Anne Thornberry (born 27 July 1960) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales since 2021, and previously from 2011 to 2014.

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We have to negotiate a new agreement. That, we think, is likely to be a customs union that will look pretty much like the current customs union.

We cannot turn the clock back and run the Brexit vote again. We have been given our instructions by the British people and we must act on them.

The communities who stand to lose out most from Brexit must be looked after first

Britain has disappeared into the Brexit black hole

It is quite clear that the government of Venezuela is, on the face of it, responsible for human rights abuses and it does not have a plan to get themselves out of the situation they are currently in.

[A new agreement is needed] that we think is likely to be a customs union that will look pretty much like the current customs union.

We need to leave the European Union but it is good for our economy - they're our biggest market - that we stay as close as we can

I think anybody who has looked into this issue has seen that it is quite clear that there is no other place that we can go than to remain in a customs union with the European Union - nothing else makes sense.

Are we going to celebrate a Labour version of Brexit? No. We must have the Labour Party this week saying no to Brexit and we must lead the campaign to remain.

[Labour must] lead the campaign to remain

We've got to a stage where we feel that any deal is so controversial and may well be so far from what people voted for when they voted to leave, that we think that it is probably appropriate… that we say to the people, 'Is this what you wanted?' We just want to check. Because if it isn't, then let's stay.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emily Thornberry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.