There is also a moral point: if someone works, they should be the main beneficiary of their labour, rather than being forced to give most of their extra earnings to the Government.
The Labour leader says Britain needs a government “committed to the national interest, not desperately trying to save their own skin”.
It is essential that the US, in particular, keeps alight the flame of a two-state solution as and when this, the only solution, could have stronger support.
At least 13 members of his front bench are in open revolt. As I write, that’s sustainable. As matters develop, it may not be.
Sir Keir’s choice is between not sacking front bench dissenters, so inviting claims of weakness, and doing so – thus provoking accusations of over-reacting.
if you look at the odds for the next Conservative leader, there are no white men among the front runners. The top five comprise Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, James Cleverly, Suella Braverman and Gillian Keegan.
What Sir Keir and Labour MPs say in the Commons is worth keeping an eye on.
Doing so will be immensely difficult and will involve fighting in densely populated urban areas, creating enormous risks for both the Israel Defence Forces forces and Gazan civilians.
As his options narrow, Sunak has little choice but to get back to first principles, which would be the right course anyway.
Even taking by-election turnouts into account, these results are terrible for Rishi Sunak, and suggest that Sir Keir is on course to win the next general election
On the evidence of yesterday’s Commons statement, Labour backbench opinion is broadly pro-Palestinian – so pressure on the party leadership’s line is likely to intensify during the weeks ahead.
Though for all his efforts to place his tanks on Tory lawns, the former editor of Socialist Alternatives still struggled to speak like a Conservative in several crucial areas.
He made a pitch to Conservative voters who “look in horror” at their party immmersing itself in the “murky waters of populism and conspiracy” to turn to Labour.
We don’t want our children to grow up in a stultified, caste society where the only way to wealth and opportunity is to inherit it from parents.
For all the Shadow Chancellor’s efforts to pose as the voice of fiscal discipline, pressure for higher spending from her colleagues and party continue to add up.