BREAKING: Emily Thornberry resigns from shadow cabinet — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 20, 2014

Thornberry’s statement:

“Earlier today I sent a tweet which has caused offence to some people. That was never my intention and I have apologised. However I will not let anything distract from Labour’s chance to win the coming general election. I have therefore tonight told Ed Miliband I will resign from the shadow cabinet.”

UPDATE: Full interview with White Van Man in the Sun tomorrow:

Labour: only here for the sneers pic.twitter.com/Ocm3cXnYOK — Stig Abell (@StigAbell) November 20, 2014

George Orwell knew a thing or two about left-wingers like Emily Thornberry:

“In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.”

Labour’s prosecco progressives openly despise the suburban aspirational middle classes and are privately condescending towards the working classes and their traditional values…