Wes Streeting MP

Wes Streeting told activists at the Lab18 Progress rally that new centrist parties are ‘on a road to nowhere’ – the full transcript of his speech: It is great to be here with Progress rally tonight. It is like one of Chris Williamson’s democracy tours, except the average age is about twenty years younger. And we are here to talk about how we elect more Labour MPs, rather than get rid of the ones we have got.

Simple narratives that seek to cast all the blame of the Gaza conflict on one side are as naive as they are unhelpful to the cause of peace, writes Labour Friends of Israel’s Jennifer Gerber On Tuesday Labour Friends of Israel issued a tweet about the violence on the Gaza border which blamed Hamas for the tragic death of 60 Palestinians. Trying to sum up a complex, developing situation in 288 characters is not easy or wise. We got it wrong and I regret that.

Progressives must speak up about what is happening at the Gaza border and what its wider implications mean: the current trajectory of Israeli and American policy offers no path to peace, writes Wes Streeting MP Yesterday was the bloodiest day of violence on the border between Gaza and Israel since the recent wave of protests began. Fifty-nine Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli forces, including six children.