Emily Thornberry
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Emily Thornberry (born 27 July 1960, London) is a British Labour Party politcian. She has been Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005.
Thornberry was educated at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and practiced as a barrister specialising in human rights from 1985 to 2005 in Tooks Chambers, run by Michael Mansfield. In the 2001 general election she stood for Parliament in Canterbury where she claimed she was a local candidate, and at the 2005 general election was elected as Member of Parliament for Islington South & Finsbury, suffering one of the largest swings against Labour in the country and seeing the party's majority slashed to 484.
In an odd coincidence she has lived on Richmond Crescent, where Tony Blair lived until the 1997 general election, since 1993, moving in on the same day that the Blairs moved in. Fellow MP Margaret Hodge also lives on the same road.
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- ^ From Tooks's website.
- ^ From the Islington Tribune, 5th September 2005, p. 3.
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Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury 2005 – present |
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