🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer’s Chief Secretary says the PM will not resign
He says Starmer did not knowingly or unknowingly mislead Parliament
“You need a credible, reliable, strong Prime Minister to be able to take the country through difficult challenges”
David Lammy asked about the murder of 167 girls in the Minab 🇮🇷 school bombing by 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱
Refuses to say targeting a school would be a breach of international law
Instead it’s:
‘A febrile war zone’
‘It’s for 🇺🇸 to say’
Empty of morality
Disgusting.
Labour MPs row on WhatsApp over Shabana Mahmood's migration reforms, announced today.
"Inevitable Windrush style scandal coming"
"This is anything but compassionate... Not labour values at all"
"This isn't fair, credible or sustainable"
Tehran is a city of nine million people. They did this in Gaza - with horrendous results. It is deliberately done to terrify the population on the ground. Where do they go? Where is safe? The Internet is down so comms is tough
Great news - Andrea Egan, General Secretary of public-service union UNISON, will be speaking at the Ukraine solidarity meeting at Parliament next week (4 March) 🧵
We're delighted to have the new leader of the UK's largest trade union!
(Register here: https://t.co/IwKKA00l4x)
Left: One of Keir Starmer's justifications for letting the US use British military bases to attack Iran is because UK armed forces in the middle east are at threat from Iran
Right: Foreign Office Special Advisor to David Lammy, Ben Judah, "We're so deeply tied in to the US security system, that when you go - as I've been - to several of our bases in the Gulf that what is really ours - I'm going to be honest - is British zones in or by American bases"
"Those are currently under attack"
"We would very easily come under attack by the Iranians"
Cathy Newman, "And then we're dragged into the war"
Ben Judah, "Absolutely, a war in which we had no real role in planning, a war we did not choose"
"This is what happens when you're so closely tied into a superpower that has become erratic"
I'm no fan of the Iranian regime, their oppression of the Iranian people is abhorrent, their extreme abuse of religion to justify it is equally unIslamic and unjust
Do we need to protect British citizens abroad? Absolutely. Do we need to keep our military personal safe? 💯 without question
But the UK being dragged into the US's war with Iran, surely this can't be a good thing for us?
@vonderleyen Which developments? The US/Israel aggression? The massacres of dozens of civilians? The risk of Iran retaliating?
Invoking nuclear safety while endorsing policies that endanger millions is not leadership: it's escalation. May EU citizens see what is being signed off in their name
I usually go to the polling station with my partner.
My adult children came too when they lived at home.
Was that "family voting" or absolutely fine because we're White skinned and not Muslims?
Yesterday Oman's Foreign Minister - leading negotiations between US & Iran - said a peace agreement is within reach.
Today, Israel & US bomb Iran, making the whole region unsafe, which will lead to more bloodshed & instability.
All while the international community watches on.
It's an illegal attack. There is no evidence Iran was about to strike Israel, or about to acquire nukes. There is zero justification under international law for Israel bombing Iran.
I will keep saying this because they want to have their racist, cruel, divisive & unjustifiable anti-migrant cake & eat progressive votes too SO BADLY:
They have removed the right for RECOGNISED REFUGEES to be reunited safely with their CHILDREN.
Every journalist should be reporting the facts, as Jeremy Bowen just did on the BBC:
🚨 This is a war of choice, not a 'pre-emptive' war
🚨 It's against international law
🚨 Trump and Netanyahu don't care about that
🚨 It threatens the security of the world
Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.
You have helped facilitate genocide.
You have sought to throw grannies behind bars for opposing that genocide.
You will lose.
You will be remembered only as a monster, and one day, it is politicians like you who will end up behind bars for facilitating the crime of crimes.
Thousands arrested for what we all knew was an illegal overreach by a Government committed to crushing resistance to genocide. Well done to those who fought the ban ✊ ✊ 🎉
BREAKING: WE WON.
The High Court ruled the Palestine Action ban is unlawful as it is disproportionate to free speech and the Home Secretary breached her own policy.
The court ordered the ban be quashed. Details of lifting the ban will be decided and completed at a later date.