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Emily Thornberry
1960 • British • Politician
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Showing 60 quotesWhat a nightmare it would be if we individually had to criminalise every single abuse of every single commodity, market or financial product. There are thousands of these and new ones being invented every day. Such an approach would have disastrous implications for regulation and policy-making. Any slide towards it must be resisted.— Emily Thornberry
AV does not bring you greater proportionality - and there is a tendency for parties to gang up on one of the major ones to run an 'anyone but' campaign.— Emily Thornberry
When one party is really unpopular, like the Conservatives in 1997, AV can really skew the result disproportionately against them.— Emily Thornberry
First-past-the-post builds a direct relationship between a community and their MP. Residents come together to decide who most people want as their national representative. No one has more than one vote and it has to be cast responsibly.— Emily Thornberry