Corbyn’s terror U-turn: too little, too late?

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has had to backpedal on comments he made on the government’s 'shoot-to-kill' policy. Emily Hohler reports.

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Jeremy Corbyn: a "f***ing disgrace"

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reversed his opposition to the government's "shoot-to-kill" policy in the event of a terror attack, after being openly challenged by his own MPs for telling the BBC that he was "not happy" with the idea and thought it could be "quite dangerous" and "counter-productive". On Monday, he was "aggressively heckled" during an angry meeting with Labour MPs, says Jon Stone in The Independent, with one shadow minister branding him a "f***ing disgrace".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.