This is particularly fun because *the interviewer* is a Labour member who was suspended for racist remarks then readmitted in a flagrantly bent manner, and this appears to not strike anyone as farcical or worryingly corrupt.

'James Connolly... an Irish socialist republican, & he educated himself and he started non sectarian trade unionism in Ireland and he was a hero of the Irish Revolution'

Murdered by the British #OTD in 1916

The CEO of the Holocaust Education Trust is playing genocide Top Trumps...

On Weds Labs line was that an Israeli intervention into Rafah should not go ahead. Although Ashworths stumble signposts a revision

Today its a full scale intervention thats the problem - allowing Israel to carry on killing so long as everyone agrees the slaughter is only partial

In 2020 during the pandemic, Starmer said 'Theres a sense across the country we haven't got our values right & we've underpaid & undervalued lots of people & we need to change that'

2 years later he refused to support nurses fighting against having their pay cut in real terms

You won’t get it back on its feet without committing to restoring nurses pay.

Nurse vacancies account for a third of all vacancies across the NHS. You can’t recruit your way out of a retention crisis.

'It's not antisemitic to say that what Israel is doing is wrong'

'Do you support the nurses strike?'

'Well look, I empathise with the nurses'

'Are the nurses right to strike?'

'Well look I've always supported the right to strike'

That's how much Keir supports nurses.

Compare and contrast,

'Russias REMORSELESS ASSAULT on the Kharkiv region continues'

'Israels impending INCURSION into Rafah'

In a discussion on freedom of expression in universities, Sally Mapstone, head of Universities UK, says she won't comment on the governments attacks on academics. Funny that.

.Zarah Sultana MP: 'we're aiding & abetting what are war crimes'. Yes we are. #bbclaurak

'That Rafah offensive will be catastrophic'

Unlike every other offensive eh?

You can try & distance yourself from the genocide, but we've seen you support Israels actions over several months, despite people (including Israeli politicians) telling you what was going to happen

'The Labour party needs to be calling for an immediate suspension of arms sales [to Israel]'

Zarah Sultana MP is asked about Labours position on Gaza #bbclaurak

Cameron confirms the govt won't restore funding to UNRWA & repeats the Israeli claim that UNRWA workers were involved in Oct7th. Except Israel has provided no evidence for those claims, which were made to distract attention from the ICJ ruling of plausible genocide

'... crucially, looks at the behaviour of the [IDF] & asks that central question, is there a serious risk of a serious breach of intl humanitarian law'

'And at the moment the answer to that is?

'The answer up to now has been we've allowed the export licensing to continue'

'It took you 5 minutes to adopt Natalie Elphicke, without any apparent due process. You've taken a year not to restore the whip to Diane Abbott, & theres no sign you're going to do that. Whats so different about Diane Abbott?'

She's a socialist.

Jonathan Ashworth is asked if Keir Starmer is going to have to withdraw the whip from Natalie Elphicke.

Trevor Phillips then asks Ashworth if he has complete confidence in Elphicke, and Ashworth replies 'She said it is nonsense'.

Labour (still) opposes banning arms exports to Israel, and Ashworth spells it out - Labour policy is in lockstep with the United States.

Labour latest position: British made weapons shouldn't be used in any full scale offensive into Rafah

So British made weapons used in a partial offensive is ok, & British made weapons slaughtering civilians anywhere else in Gaza (including those driven out of Rafah) is ok

On Wednesday Jonathan Ashworth said an Israeli intervention into Rafah should not go ahead. This morning he uses the phrase 'full scale offensive'

Playing with words so Labour avoid having to condemn Israels actions