Labour speaks out on Venezuela as pressure mounts on Corbyn

Emily Thornberry describes 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 party leader was a longtime admirer of Venezuela under its late socialist leader Hugo Cháv