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Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry has been caught speeding at 81mph on the motorway – in a picture she posted on her Instagram account.
The Shadow Attorney General, whose husband is a High Court judge, uploaded the incriminating photo of driving to party conference in Liverpool last Saturday.
Ms Thornberry, 62, wrote next to the snap ‘On my way to Labour Conference’, adding that she was ‘choosing a Labour Students disco playlist’.
The picture was taken by a back seat passenger and shows the rear-view mirror, revealing that Ms Thornberry, in sunglasses and a brown coat, is driving the Toyota Prius in the middle lane.
Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry has been caught speeding at 81mph on the motorway – in a picture she posted on her Instagram account
She shared the snap with her 24,000 followers but failed to spot that the digital speedometer on the car’s dashboard displayed the figure 81. The speed limit on Britain’s motorways is 70mph.
Last night her spokesman said: ‘She is well aware that the speed limits are set where they are for a reason, and she apologises unreservedly for this fleeting and totally unwitting moment when she exceeded them on the drive to Liverpool.’
The gaffe comes eight years after another social-media blunder, when she sparked outrage over a ‘sneering’ tweet about three St George’s flags hanging from a house during the Rochester by-election in Kent.
She posted a picture of the
