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I mean, I do think there are times when we could communicate what we're doing better.

Sometimes we almost seem to be sort of embarrassed about what we're doing instead of proud of it.

That is the unmistakable voice of Emily Thornbury, talking to me in her House of Commons

office this week with some friendly advice for Kea Stama. She is one of the great survivors of

modern British politics. After an accomplished career as a barrister, she's been an MP, perhaps one of our

most characterful MPs for two decades. And for much of that time, she has served at the heart

of the Labour Party. Under Ed Miliband, where after an ill-judged social media post, she had to resign

to the centre of the Corbyn Project, one of those who chose to stay rather than fight

from outside. She's since become, with her distinctive turn of phrase, her direct style, her

signature eye roll, something of an occasional political social media star. And yet, after all those

years in opposition, all that toil and graft, as her party

finally entered government in July, she didn't. One of the few in Stama's shadow cabinet

who was asked not to go into office. But she hasn't been idle since. She's a newly elected chair

of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee,

one of the most prestigious of Parliament's backbench jobs. So with the world in a bit of a

spot and her party in the same, we thought what better time to catch up with the woman herself,

her political career, her politics, the world as it is, the Corbynese, and why Stama wouldn't take her with him.

Welcome to the newsagents.

Well, Emily Thornberry, or perhaps I should say Dame Emily Thornberry, if that's not too presumptuous.

Thank you so much for letting us into your comments office. You just gave me a big eye roll there, the characteristic Emily Thornberry eye roll. Well, it's what the papers say. Let's see what the

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