“History will remember him as the unremarkable former human rights lawyer who offered carte blanche to the gravest crimes of our age.”
Good riddance, Sir Keir. For @ScotNational.
🚨We now have further information on Burnham’s incoming team.
His chief of staff will be James Purnell, ex-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
In 2002, Purnell was hosted by the Israeli state in Tel Aviv. Now, he will be the most senior adviser in the British government.
The most emotion Keir Starmer has shown is over losing his job, not enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Good riddance.
His next stop should be The Hague.
Yvette Cooper says she is horrified by Ben Gvir calling for "all of Lebanon to burn".
But while Gaza and Lebanon burn, the UK government continues to facilitate the supply of fighter jet components to Israel.