Thornberry sparks Twitter storm after appearing to claim 70% wanted out

Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry bemused viewers after she appeared to claim that 70% of the United Kingdom supports leaving the EU. Thornberry then appeared to claim that 70% supported leaving the EU, before saying “some honesty needs to be injected into this”. She said: “I personally don’t really understand why 70% of the population at this moment don’t want to remain in the EU. But they don’t. I personally think the reason for that is because we’ve not had the sort of debate we need to have.”