Emily Thornberry will chair the foreign affairs select committee, after the Speaker of the House declared the results of committee chair elections in which only one of Labour’s 2024 intake succeeded.
Thornberry, the member of parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, was surprisingly left out of Keir Starmer’s cabinet despite years serving in his shadow cabinet. The 64-year-old will head the highly influential foreign affairs select committee instead, while Labour MPs will also fill almost every other committee chair position.
