Emily Thornberry has said the taxpayer should continue to fund security for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

The Shadow Foreign Secretary, who is also running to be the next leader of the Labour party, said that if Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, do move to another country their security should still be paid for by the British public.

"I think the British taxpayer should pay for the security of Harry and Meghan and their family as they do for former ministers," she said.

Ms Thornberry added that as continued funding of security was justified for the royal couple because as an Army officer, Prince Harry had done a number of tours of duty on the front line in Afghanistan.

"He has done great service," she told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.

"I just hate to think what he must be thinking now, having used his instinct to try and defend our country, now he has his much-loved wife and his baby under the type of media scrutiny they are suffering. He must be really wanting to defend them."

Prince Harry served in the army for a decade, during which he achieved the rank of Captain and undertook two tours of Afghanistan.