https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/22/how-tensions-with-trump-dominated-starmer-premiership

Tucked way down, buried in between photos, as obscured as possible are these two paragraphs:

A few days after Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel in October 2023, Starmer, then in opposition, said in a radio interview that the country “does have that right” to cut off electricity and water to Gaza. Later, a Labour spokesperson said he had meant to say that Israel had a right to self-defence, but the comments lingered all the way to the election, where the party lost a handful of safe inner-city seats.

In government, Starmer’s positions on Israel and Palestine were more an exercise in domestic politics. Labour suspended most, but not all, arms sales to Israel in September 2024 and recognised Palestine as a state a year later, with France, Canada and Australia. The limited measures had no effect on an aggressive Israel determined to prosecute destructive wars against Hamas, Hezbollah and finally Iran.

Talk about burying the lede and then lying through your teeth once you get round to talking about it.

Funnily enough, not one mention of Palestine Action and criminalising free speech and arresting hordes of pensioners for saying "Don't kill kids by the thousands". Not one mention of targetting/spying flights from Acrotiri. Not one mention of doing nothing about the apartheid state's piracy in internation waters. Not one mention of secret meetings with wanted war criminals protected by the Met when they landed here, etc. ,etc., etc. Instead they try to pretend he stopped arms sales to the genocidal entity.

Lying. Fucking. Scum.