Labour's Line on Israel

Oct 11: Starmer tells LBC he’s no objection to Israel cutting off water and electricity from Gaza.

Nov 16: Jess Phillips resigns from Labour’s front bench because there’s a fierce three-line whip against supporting a ceasefire.

Dec 10: David Lammy - with Starmer’s backing - attacks Israel for ignoring settler violence on the West Bank.

That’s not a line, it’s a zigzag. This isn’t an organised party, proceeding through rational analysis. It’s a dictatorship, where everything is geared to accommodating the leader’s whims today - which may well have changed by tomorrow. And this is what the country is being offered, as an alternative to the Tories. God help us all.