Labour’s Emily Thornberry blasts ‘selfish’ people who refuse Covid jab
Labour’s Emily Thornberry says she would never date someone who hasn’t had a Covid jab because they are ‘selfish’
Emily Thornberry said she would not date someone who has not had Covid jabsMs Thornberry said that people who choose to be unvaccinated are ‘selfish’The shadow attorney general said that ‘we owe it to others to be vaccinated’
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Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry has said she would not date someone who has not had a coronavirus jab as she labelled the unvaccinated as ‘selfish’.
The shadow attorney general said people who choose not to be vaccinated do ‘not care about community’.
Ms Thornberry said she believes ‘we owe it to others to be vaccinated, not just to ourselves’.
Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry has said she would not date someone who has not had a coronavirus jab as she labelled the unvaccinated as ‘selfish’
She made the comments last night on ITV’s Peston programme during a discussion about red line dating issues.
The programme conducted a poll to coincide with the week of Valentine’s Day to ask people which is the most important issue to agree on if you are dating someone.
Most respondents said Brexit but Covid vaccination status was in second place.
Ms Thornberry, who is married with three children, was asked what she would choose and she replied: ‘I wouldn’t go out with someone who wasn’t vaccinated.’
The former shadow international trade secretary was asked what she would say to a date who revealed they were not vaccinated and she joked: ‘Well, first of all I would say I was married.’
She then continued: ‘I’m out. Yeah, really.’
The shadow attorney general said people who choose not to be vaccinated do ‘not care about community’
Fellow guest, Bob Seely, the Tory MP for the Isle of Wight, pointed out that someone who is unvaccinated ‘doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theorist’.
But Ms Thornberry replied: ‘I don’t care. It shows him to be selfish, to not care about community, to not have a sense of responsibility.
‘I think that we owe it to others to be vaccinated, not just to ourselves.’
