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Thornberry: Being called snob over tweet was 'upsetting'

Labour MP Emily Thornberry says being called a "snob" over a controversial tweet she sent on the day of the Rochester by-election was "upsetting".

The Labour MP resigned from her shadow cabinet post in November after sending the tweet - which showed a terraced house covered in England flags and a white van parked outside.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said that the tweet "conveyed disrespect".

But Ms Thornberry said the house "looked like the house I was brought up in" and she had "never forgotten" where she came from.

This clip is originally from Pienaar's Politics on 11 January 2014.

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