Emily Thornberry has defended a widely-criticised Labour party ad which claims Rishi Sunak doesn’t think child sex abusers should go to prison.
Ednews reports citing Metro that the ad, first published on Thursday, depicts a grinning picture of the Prime Minister alongside the caption: ‘Do you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison? Rishi Sunak doesn’t.’
Figures on Labour’s left have joined with Tory unease over the message, and shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell has refused to endorse it.
But the shadow attorney general has said critics were wrong for saying the ad is ‘racist’.