![]() You had Yasmin Qureshi, a Labour frontbencher, talking in the House of Commons about the fact that Israel was inflicting a collective punishment on Gaza, something which Starmer plainly hasn’t said either. So that’s given him a significant problem. ![]() A lot of anger still going back to that interview he gave to LBC a couple of weeks ago where he said that Israel had the right to cut off fuel and water supplies to Gaza, and that’s really angered people, understandably so in his own party. And there have been at least a couple of dozen councillors who resigned in protest of the way that Keir Starmer’s handled this. George Parker I think Keir Starmer will be extremely glad that the Biden administration has started talking about humanitarian pauses because it at least gives him something to say to his many critics and a growing number of critics on his own side, including many Muslim MPs and councillors, Labour councillors, who he met, as you said, on Wednesday. Starmer has said he backs humanitarian pauses, the US position, but that doesn’t go far enough for many in his party. Their central demand was that Labour should be backing calls backed by some other nations for a ceasefire. So George, on Wednesday evening Keir Starmer was forced to speak with Muslim Labour MPs who are very concerned about his position on the crisis. It’s now shadow ministers threatening to walk. Last week, we discussed on the podcast how Labour was dealing with splits on the issue as councillors quit in protest, and this week those divisions have only deepened. It’s having an effect here in the UK, too. Lucy Fisher Well, the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war is causing shockwaves around the world. I’m joined in the studio by my FT colleagues, George Parker. Also coming up, we’ll look back on Rishi Sunak’s first year in office, and - happy anniversary, Prime Minister - the next challenging by-election that could be looming. You heard there the FT’s Miranda Green talking about Rachel Reeves, the Labour shadow chancellor who’s been beset by apparent plagiarism claims. Lucy Fisher Welcome to Political Fix, your essential insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times with me, Lucy Fisher. What is there? What is the substance that’s yours, that’s your own? ![]() Miranda Green It just leaves us so open to these general brickbats of, well, your ideas are borrowed, your words are borrowed. This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘ Labour’s week of woes ’ Lucy Fisher, Miranda Green, George Parker and Soumaya Keynes Jump to comments section Print this page
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