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 grown-up room to be thoughtful. There isn’t space in public debate for that. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
The Human Rights Act has not just given a voice to victims, but to the families who have to fight for the victim where the victim has died. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence, abused children ignored by social services, mistreated residents of care homes – they have all been given a voice by the Human Rights Act. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
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 the same way as, for example, the U.S. does. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
While scrapping the HRA would severely curtail people’s ability to seek legal redress in U.K. courts for violations of their fundamental rights, the Tories’ threat to withdraw the U.K. from the ECHR are far more frightening. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
When you’ve made a mistake, you have to admit you’ve made a mistake, and correct it. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
If I had a row with my husband, it’s not going to work my saying, ‘Right, if you don’t do what I want, I’m going to walk out.’ It doesn’t work on any level. What you do is you go in and you say, ‘I have a problem. You have a problem. Let’s try and sort this out together.’ You don’t come to an agreement with people who you’re falling out with badly. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
We got evicted from our house in Guildford. We were chucked out and had nowhere to go. We ended up in social housing. And it was very hard for my mum. My brothers were five and three. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
