Emily Thornberry

I think that, you know, we have never needed to have a foreign office meeting.

more at the top of its game than we do now.

And I think that the world needs that too.

I think when the Foreign Office is firing on all cylinders, it is a force for good.

This is very destabilising.

It's very worrying that this has happened.

Everybody's all of a flutter, you know.

It must be undermining morale in the Foreign Office.

Of course it is.

We could do without it.

We could definitely do without this.

I don't know how serious that was, whether it was somebody, whether it was one call, whether it was, you know, since we're talking about handing out sweeties, can Matthew Doyle be an ambassador, whether it was a serious thing or not, I just don't know.

But it sounds pretty serious to me.

But he did say in his evidence that it sort of went away fairly quickly.

I think that most people are focused on the local elections and making sure that we get as many Labour councillors and Labour councils up and down the country because we believe that that's what's best for the country as a whole.

And I think most people are distracted by that.

Where we come to after the elections, obviously, is a different matter.

Well, let's see.

Let's see what happens.

I mean, so much happens so fast these days in politics.