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Wannabe Labour leader Emily Thornberry stuns fellow passengers as she puts her feet up on commuter train


LABOUR leadership contender Emily Thornberry stunned train passengers as she sat sprawled across two seats looking downbeat after a party hustings.

The frontbencher’s hopes of making it to the final contest for the top job are fading fast.

 Labour leadership contender Emily Thornberry stunned train passengers as she sat sprawled across two seats looking downbeat after a party hustings

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Labour leadership contender Emily Thornberry stunned train passengers as she sat sprawled across two seats looking downbeat after a party hustings

And it looked like the pressure had got to her as she put her feet up on the train seat on the journey home from the leadership hustings in Nottingham on Saturday night.

Mrs Thornberry, 59, had been battling it out against rivals Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy at the party event.

A fellow passenger told The Sun: “The train was thinning out by the time that she got on it, but she did sprawl out a bit.

“She got on with her aide, and sat opposite me in a six seater part of the carriage. I was on my own and I thought that I recognised her, and the penny dropped eventually.

“I was a bit surprised that she was on it, because it was the slow train to London, I was a bit like ‘what’s she doing here?’.

“She wasn’t taking up seats while anyone was standing, but she was spread out quite a bit. She didn’t talk much it was mostly her aide.”

 Mrs Thornberry, 59, had been battling it out against rivals Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy at the party event

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Mrs Thornberry, 59, had been battling it out against rivals Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy at the party eventCredit: Alamy Live News

The shadow foreign secretary’s leadership campaign has hit the buffers after she failed to get a single trade union to back her.

She has admitted she is being “squeezed” between the big-hitters Sir Keir Starmer and Ms Long Bailey.

The Islington South MP is expected to be knocked out of the contest before the final ballot of members.

 Mrs Thornberry has admitted she has not kept up with big-hitters like Rebecca Long-Bailey

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Mrs Thornberry has admitted she has not kept up with big-hitters like Rebecca Long-BaileyCredit: PA:Press Association
 Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer is another leadership rival squeezing Mrs Thornberry out the contest

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Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer is another leadership rival squeezing Mrs Thornberry out the contestCredit: Getty Images – Getty
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