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Thornberry will lead Labour bid to secure a people’s Brexit

EMILY THORNBERRY was appointed yesterday to lead Labour’s efforts to scrap pro-privatisation rules and to protect workers’ rights as Britain separates from the EU.

The shadow foreign secretary was given a second role as shadow Brexit secretary after PM Theresa May created a new Department for Exiting the European Union headed by David Davis.

Barry Gardiner will shadow Tory International Trade Secretary Liam Fox. He had been shadow energy and climate change secretary but the department was abolished by the Tories last week.

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