Emily Thornberry has been tipped to be the next Labour leader by the head of Britain's biggest union.
According to the HuffPost, Unite's General Secretary Len McCluskey told friends the party's next leader has to be a woman and said he sees the shadow foreign secretary as "a tough cookie who isn't afraid of taking big decisions".
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