e also owns a £600,000 flat in Guildford, Surrey, which she says she bought for her mother in 2000 to ‘free’ her council house for a family. It is rented out, and while she has refused to reveal her income from the property, another flat in the building has a ‘rental value’ of £3,000 a month. The flat is overseen by a company called Clifton House (Guildford) Limited, incorporated in 2004. Land Registry documents reveal a number of leases linked to other flats in the building. When questioned yesterday, the MP said she knew ‘nothing’ about the firm. But company documents reveal that she was appointed a director on April 9, 2008 – the month that her mother died. She resigned on April 1, 2010 – and was replaced by her husband. From 2007 to October 2010, her parliamentary register of interests revealed that she had a ‘one-fifth interest in a flat in South London’. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2844806/Champagne-socialist-s-property-empire-Emily-Thornberry-lives-lives-wildest-dreams-working-class-voters-purports-represent.html#ixzz3JnLxmi63 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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