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 control of the place, what is the point of it being there? This was built in 1842 and is totally inappropriate for modern needs. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve been in politics a long time and the only way you survive is by getting the hide of a rhino. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
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 let’s look up to them, don’t be afraid, they’re looking after things. It’s so fundamentally anti-democratic. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can’t take the estate out of the girl. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don’t have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
To give him his credit, I never thought I’d say this, but Donald Trump was talking about the importance of investing in jobs and infrastructure and in the economies across the country, not just the main cities, and that’s right. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is the history of progressive movements – such as the abolitionist campaign in Britain or the fight for African-American civil rights – in which the role of women has been diminished. Emily Thornberry Read Quote
