The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee is the not-so silent assassin Starmer snubbed – now she’s coming back to haunt him, writes John Rentoul T he surprise of Keir Starmer’s first cabinet was that Emily Thornberry would not be attending it. The shadow attorney general was the only member of the shadow cabinet not to be translated into ministerial office, as the new prime minister appointed his friend and former colleague Richard Hermer instead. She said that she was “sorry and surprised”