Pressure mounts on Jeremy Corbyn to speak out over Venezuela

Emily Thornberry describes Nicolás Maduro’s presidency as ‘increasingly authoritarian’ and calls for rule of law to be respected

Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, has said Venezuela’s government has a duty to answer concerns about Nicolás Maduro’s “increasingly authoritarian rule”, as pressure mounted on Jeremy Corbyn to speak out.

The Labour leader was a longtime admirer of Venezuela under its late socialist leader Hugo Chávez, saying in 2013 he was “an inspiration to all of us fighting back against austerity and neoliberal economics in Europe”.

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