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EMILY THORNBERRY was labelled an “ideologically confused mess” yesterday after lumping Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro in with far-right politicians.
Speaking to delegates at Labour’s annual conference in Brighton, the shadow foreign secretary said that the Venezuelan president was “plunging Venezuela into ever-deeper division and misery.”
She also placed him alongside far-right world leaders such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, as well as Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ms Thornberry criticised the politicians for being “strongmen,” and called Donald Trump “the daddy of them all.”
Aylesbury delegate Josh Jackson said: “What a mess. What an ideologically confused mess.”
A Venezuela Solidarity Campaign spokesperson told the Star: “Emily Thornberry often makes passionate critiques of Donald Trump and his reactionary policies.
“It’s high time she denounced his murderous, illegal sanctions on Venezuela — that have killed tens of thousands of people — rather than repeat his narrative on Venezuela that he is using to justify his build-up to war.”
