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Thornberry vows to stand and hits out at Labour’s ‘catastrophic folly’

Shadow foreign minister catastrophic political folly”. The the fi rst candidate to confi rm she subject of his choosing at a time of his shadow foreign secretary set out her wants to be in the race, although Lisa ‘I took the fi ght to choosing. says she warned of perils pitch to be the next Labour leader in Nandy , , and Johnson every day “Listening to Labour colleagues on of backing snap election an article for , arguing have indicated they are the media over the last week, I have she has already “pummelled” Boris seriously considering it. and pummelled him’ repeatedly heard the refrain that the Johnson across the d ispatch box and Rebecca Long-Bailey , who is backed problem we faced last Thursday was knows how to exploit his failings. by a number of Corbyn allies, is highly that ‘this became the election’. Rowena Mason Directly addressing those calling for likely to stand, along with “To which I can only say I look for- Deputy political editor a new leader from , and possibly . Shadow foreign secretary ward to their tweets of shock when she made the case that Corbyn’s In her article, Thornberry sought to next Wednesday’s lunch features tur- Emily Thornberry has declared she is replacement should be chosen on demonstrate her political judgment by before Brexit was settled in a referen- key and Brussels sprouts … I wrote to entering the race to succeed Jeremy the basis of their “political nous and revealing that she sent a lengthy writ- dum. She likened the party’s decision the leader’s offi ce warning it would be Corbyn, revealing she warned the strategic vision”, rather than where ten note to the leadership before the to back an election to “crackers voting ‘an act of catastrophic political folly’ to Labour leadership that backing a they come from or their views on election, explaining it would be dis- for Christmas” because it gave John- vote for the election, and set 6  Brexit election would be an “act of Brexit. Her declaration makes her astrous for Labour to go to the polls son a chance to fi ght an election on a out a lengthy draft narrative Pray for me, embattled Trump tells supporters

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An embattled Donald Trump last night urged his supporters to “say a prayer” for him as Democrats made their fi nal procedural moves on Capitol Hill to impeach , making him almost certain to be only the third US president in his- tory to suff er such a fate. Members of the US House of Rep- resentatives, dominated by the Democratic party, began the hours of contentious debate expected to cul- minate in a formal vote to impeach Trump, leading to a trial in the Sen- ate over his dealings with Ukraine. But even before the commencement of the debate, Democrats were sig- nalling confi dence that they have the votes to trigger the historic trial and send Trump down the same 28  impeachment path as Bill

• ▲ Nancy Pelosi, centre, speaker of the House of Representatives, and Republican Debbie Dingell walk to the chamber for the debate PHOTOGRAPH: J SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP