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Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry has been dragged into the row over Boris Johnson’s controversial comments about Muslim women, after it emerged she told a television audience: “I wouldn’t want my four year old looked after by somebody wearing a burka – I wouldn’t want my elderly mum looked after by somebody wearing a burka.”
“They need to be able to show their face,” she told BBC1’s Question Time in November 2013, during a discussion on whether the burka should be banned as she sat next to then Ukip leader Nigel Farage on the panel.
Ms Thornberry said that it was “really important” that in court cases juries get the opportunity to “assess people.” She added that with “certain careers” it was also important to for people’s faces to be visible.