Emily Thornberry was booed by a Question Time audience after she denied Russia was interfering in a chemical weapons inspection by officials in Syria.
The shadow foreign secretary faced an angry backlash when she suggested that delays holding up inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were the result of the United Nations and its “red tape…and their safety stuff”.
Emily Thornberry was booed by a Question Time audience last night after she denied Russia was interfering in a chemical weapons inspection by officials in Syria https://t.co/HeCS5rY1tA pic.twitter.com/0qZ0AcRdhc
— Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics) April 20, 2018
Emily Thornberry: I don’t accept the Russians are blocking the chemical weapons inspectors. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/k0kZh5kWc4
— Ben (@Jamin2g) April 19, 2018