The Shadow Foreign Secretary says it's hard to imagine a bigger contrast from Corbyn, who refuses to engage in personal abuse or deceit, no matter how convenient it would be
22:04, 07 Jun 2017Updated 23:12, 07 Jun 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May has proved herself cowardly(Image: Getty)
Just a few months ago, if you’d asked me what I thought of Theresa May , I would have said that – while I disagreed with her politics – I admired her character.
I considered her stolid, strong and principled, with a basic sense of decency not always found in front-line politics.
Well what a difference seven weeks make. Since calling the election, she has been well and truly shown up as tetchy and thin-skinned about criticism, weak and unstable under pressure, cowardly when faced with a challenge, and deceitful when it suits her political ends.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry(Image: Getty Images Europe)
But more than anything, I believe she has been exposed as a hypocrite.
She is happy to trade on her faith one minute, then tell blatant lies about Jeremy Corbyn the next.
She viciously attacks Diane Abbott over getting her numbers wrong in an interview, then brazenly and repeatedly refuses to offer any costings of her own.
May viciously attacked Diane Abbott(Image: Getty)
And worst, most sickening of all, she stands outside 10 Downing Street and tells the British public that ‘enough is enough’ on terrorism, then goes back inside to call her Jihadist-funding friends in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and see what business deals she can strike with them next.
It is hard to imagine a bigger contrast from Jeremy Corbyn.
A man who has taken more criticism and pressure than any of us could stand, but has stood up to it all.
A man who has embraced every challenge in this campaign with enthusiasm and courage. A man who refuses to engage in personal abuse or deceit, no matter how politically convenient it would be.
Jeremy Corbyn is a man of his convictions(Image: Getty)
A man who for three decades has stuck by the principles that brought him into politics, and has done so with an integrity, honesty and steadfastness that shames Theresa May.
If anyone has proved themselves strong and stable during this campaign, it is him.
Emily Thornberry is the Chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee