About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Emily Thornberry) represents you, and all of the people who live in Islington South and Finsbury, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @emilythornberry.bsky.social
• @EmilyThornberry
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Emily Thornberry campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for International Trade
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Attorney-General
• Ministry of Defence
• Cabinet Office
• Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
• Crown Prosecution Service
• Serious Fraud Office
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
• Prosecutions

Currently held offices

• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 4 Dec 2024)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (since 2 Dec 2024)
• Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)
• Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Attorney General (29 Nov 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade ( 6 Apr 2020 to 29 Nov 2021)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (20 Jul 2016 to 6 Oct 2016)
• Shadow Foreign Secretary (27 Jun 2016 to 5 Apr 2020)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Defence ( 5 Jan 2016 to 27 Jun 2016)
• Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (18 Sep 2015 to 5 Jan 2016)
• Member, Health and Social Care Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 26 Oct 2015)
• Shadow Attorney General ( 7 Oct 2011 to 20 Nov 2014)
• Shadow Minister (Health) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 7 Oct 2011)
• Shadow Minister (Energy and Climate Change) (12 May 2010 to 8 Oct 2010)
• Member, Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill (Joint Committee) ( 1 May 2008 to 22 Jul 2008)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (23 Oct 2006 to 2 Nov 2009)
• Member, Draft Legal Services Bill (Joint Committee) (15 May 2006 to 25 Jul 2006)
• Member, Environmental Audit Committee (12 Jul 2005 to 26 Mar 2007)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Chris Smith
• George Cunningham

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Welfare Reform and Work Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• Health and Social Care Bill Committee (40 out of 40)
• Energy Bill Committee (11 out of 12)
• Children, Schools and Families Bill Committee (4 out of 12)
• Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill Committee (12 out of 18)
• Law Commission Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Equality Bill Committee (13 out of 20)
• Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance Bill Committee (20 out of 24)
• Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
• Emergency Workers (Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Racial and Religious Hatred Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• National Lottery Bill Committee (6 out of 8)

Recent appearances

• Afghanistan 15 Jul 2025

  I am grateful to the ministerial team for my early briefing, which gave me an opportunity to read a Foreign Affairs Committee report that came out—it was begun in September 2021—in 2022 under the chairmanship of the right hon. Member for Tonbridge (Tom Tugendhat). It is called “Missing in action: UK leadership and the withdrawal from Afghanistan” and it was excoriating: “The manner...

• Trial by Jury: Proposed Restrictions 9 Jul 2025

  I spent the first 20 years of my professional life in the criminal courts as a barrister. There is no one who loves the criminal justice system, or who has more respect for juries, than I do. However, the courts now are not what they were. The delays are so appalling that defendants just plead “not guilty”, because they know that their case will not come up for years, and the chances of...

• Actions of Iranian Regime: UK Response 7 Jul 2025

  I wonder whether the Minister might be able to help us. We had before us the Iranian ambassador, who made it clear that he wanted to be able to continue to negotiate. Given the way in which the joint comprehensive plan of action fell apart and the fact that the Iranians were in the middle of negotiating when there was the attack by the Israelis, if a significant segment of the Iranian regime...

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