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Thornberry labelled an ‘ideological confused mess’ after lumping Maduro in with the far right
Emily Thornberry
EMILY THORNBERRY was labelled an “ideologically confused mess” yesterday after lumping Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro in with far-right politicians.
Speaking to delegates at Labour’s annual conference in Brighton, the shadow foreign secretary said that the Venezuelan president was “plunging Venezuela into ever-deeper division and misery.”
She also placed him alongside far-right world leaders such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, as well as Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
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