The backlash was immediate
However, when Labour leader Keir Starmer and his shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, gave interviews on the Israel-Gaza conflict, that facade soon shattered.on Wednesday last week, Keir Starmer was asked by host Nick Ferrari if a siege on Gaza was an appropriate response to Hamas’ attacks on Israel . Any siege would equate to “cutting off power and water”. Starmer replied: “I think that Israel does have that right.
The day before, journalists at the Labour Party conference were briefed by Labour sources that Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy would not befringe meeting as advertised. I have heard second-hand via Labour MPs that Lammy was asked by the Labour leadership not to attend the meeting but stood firm and a compromise was reached.at the event, spelling out that the death toll among Palestinians this year – including 38 children – was the highest on record.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Starmer said: “Labour stands with Israel, Britain stands with Israel.” While he called for humanitarian access and corridors to be opened, there was no question of standing with the people facing siege and bombardment in Gaza or even for standing with the Palestinian people against Israel’s long-running occupation and blockade.
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