WHEN one of the local MPs tweets a picture of herself with her arm in a sling, it’s natural to ask: Oof, what happened to you then? The answer to that question from Islington South’s Emily Thornberry yesterday sounded like a bit of a long story… but the Shadow Attorney General seems to have lost a fight with ‘heavy duty plastic packaging’. It happens to us all. Get well soon.

@richardosley Faroes last week >new knife>heavy duty plastic packaging>needed knife 2 open.Plastic + I fought. Severed tendon, nerve, artery

— Emily Thornberry MP (@EmilyThornberry) August 29, 2012