Responding to Emily Thornberry’s praise for the Cuban regime, Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, spokesman for the Cuban Democratic Directorate says:

“For a future Attorney General of the United Kingdom to be praising a murderous, dictatorial regime is horrifying. Ordinary Cubans are oppressed by the Castro authorities with little hope for a better life. Thousands of Cubans are routinely imprisoned and tortured as ‘enemies of the state’.

The Cuba regime has sent 5,000 men to fight with Putin in his imperialist invasion of Ukraine. If Emily Thornberry is a glimpse of what is to come under a Labour UK Government, it is deeply worrying. I urge Sir Keir Starmer to clarify whether Emily Thornberry’s support for the murderous Communist Cuba regime is the official Labour Party position.”