Emily Thornberry has plucked up the courage to get back on her bicycle two months after a terrifying crash outside Parliament.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary spoke about the incident for the first time since she was taken to hospital by ambulance in July.
The 59-year-old described colliding with a taxi, saying: “I hit the ground really hard and I remember seeing this flashing light and all of my nerves went and then I just lay on the ground.
“I thought I was dead. I was lying in a puddle and there were all these people making a fuss and I was just thinking just leave me alone.
“They thought I’d broken my neck but I hadn’t. They thought I’d broken my leg but I had some horrible bruises which I still have a bit of.
“I had a big cut in the back of my head that got infected a couple of times. I’ve now got a bald patch with a kind of Donald Trump combover.”
She got back on her bike for the first time since the accident on Wednesday and made sure she wore a helmet.
The Labour frontbencher said she had not been wearing a helmet because she had just been at the hairdressers and added: “I didn’t want to compromise my hairstyle. Obviously it was seriously compromised by the puddle and by the blood.”
