Despite the drama, there was still business to be carried out in the House of Commons but Clive Lewis, the newly appointed shadow defence secretary, was on his way back from Glastonbury festival and Thornberry had to step in to cover her old brief at defence questions.
However, a source close to Mr Clegg, the deputy prime minister, told the BBC: "This must be a line from an old briefing that ended up in there".
For the first time, some of the oldest briefs being made public, starting with those written in the 1960s for presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson.
This paper examines data from reviews and draws upon older brief intervention studies and recent developments in the literature on motivational interviewing to consider the capacity of brief interventions to benefit those with problems, including those with severe problems.
old producer briefs the writer on his first shave & on his idea for a play: Jonathan Swift writes "Gulliver's Travels" because he's in Despairsville, with Vanessa & Stella on his back & he's fed up with humanity, but good.
Davis wearily admitted to old-fashioned briefs.
They cannot be more than a few hundred thousand years old, a brief span in cosmic terms, or else they would have disintegrated by now.
At Harvard, Mitt Romney carried an old leather brief case bearing his father's initials, GWR, and wrote a seminar paper on a car maker and its dealerships — an issue his father had faced.
But a source close to Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said later that an "old" media briefing had been passed on to reporters by mistake.
Abuse of prescription and over-the-counter medications is on the rise among 12- and 13-year-olds, the brief said, citing data from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
