The Labour MP sacked for sneering at a family home draped with England flags has been handed a key frontbench job by Jeremy Corbyn.

Emily Thornberry sparked a storm last year when claimed she had 'never seen anything like it' after tweeting a picture of a terrace home in Rochester with three England flags and a white van parked in the drive. Ed Miliband fired her from his top team.

Now she has been welcomed back by Mr Corbyn who has appointed her as shadow employment minister.

The surprise move came as David Cameron dismissed the new Labour leader as a throwback who will get 'nowhere near power'.

Labour MP Emily Thornberry, who was sacked for sneering at a family home draped with England flags, has been handed a key frontbench job by Jeremy Corbyn

The Labour frontbencher defended posting the image, claiming she had never seen anything like it

Mr Corbyn is putting the finishing touches to his reshuffle, after struggling to find MPs will to serve in junior frontbench jobs.

He faced criticism this week for handing key roles to men and naming IRA sympathiser John McDonnell as shadow chancellor.

His decision to appoint Ms Thornberry as shadow employment minister will risk reopening the row over Labour's attitude to working class voters.

While campaigning in the Rochester and Strood by-election in NOvember last year, Ms Thornberry tweeted the photograph of the home of cage-fighting car dealer Dan Ware.

He later criticised the Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, declaring: 'She's a snob. What's she got, a three-storey townhouse in Islington? These flags can be found anywhere you look.'

Mr Miliband demanded she quit in her role as shadow attorney general, and she has been on the backbenches ever since.

In other appointments, Mr Corbyn has made Sarah Champion shadow minister for preventing abuse and Steve Reed is shadow minister for local government.

Jeremy Corbyn, picture leaving his home today, is putting the finishing touches to his reshuffle, after struggling to find MPs will to serve in junior frontbench jobs

Unveiling his top team this week, Mr Corbyn announced Hilary Benn would be shadow foreign secretary, Andy Burnham shadow home secretary, Angela Eagle is shadow business secretary, Lucy Powell, a former adviser to Mr Miliband, becomes shadow education secretary and Heidi Alexander is shadow health secretary.

The Tories stepped up their attack on Mr Corbyn tonight, with the Prime Minister claiming he will never get close to power.

Mr Cameron told business leaders the opposition's policies were a throwback to the 1980s.

He said the battles between the left and right during Margaret Thatcher's time in power would have to be fought again.

In a bid to reassure investors that the UK remained a pro-business economy, he said 'the sort of leadership you are seeing from the Labour Party at the moment will get nowhere near power'.

Prime Minister David Cameron told business leaders the opposition's policies were a throwback to the 1980s

Speaking at an event in London's Lancaster House aimed at using the Rugby World Cup to build trade links, Mr Cameron was asked about the appointment of John McDonnell as Mr Corbyn's shadow chancellor by an investor who claimed the situation 'scares me'.

The Prime Minister said there had been a consensus between the Tories and Labour since the divisions of the 1980s that 'we don't have excessive rates of taxation, we don't hand the running of the economy over to trade unions, we are not going to nationalise big industries'.

He added: 'Frankly it is a throwback that we now have a Labour leader who believes in these things. But I think the British people have moved a long way from that. No one wants to go back to those ideas.'

Just one in six voters think Jeremy Corbyn stands any chance of winning the general election, a damning new poll on the nation's first impressions of the new Labour leader reveals.

Just 17 per cent of voters - and 36 per cent of people who backed Labour in 2015 - think it is likely that Jeremy Corbyn can win a general election

Even among people who voted for Labour in 2015, barely a third think he is likely to become Prime Minister and less than half would trust him with the economy.

The survey lays bare the marked contrast between the outspoken enthusiasm of Mr Corbyn's supporters and the wider electorate.

Among all voters, only 5 per cent think it is very likely he can become PM and 12 per cent say it is fairly likely.

For Labour voters the figure is slightly higher, with 11 per cent saying very likely and 24 per cent likely.