I’m not sure about Murdoch so much as the actual UK government trying to instigate violence.
I don’t think they need to try these days as there is usually a rent-a-mob of hooligans that are attracted to these sort of things. I suspect that’s what the police are concerned about.
Sunak would absolutely love to get rid of her, and there is some suggestion that her recent behaviour is to try and goad him into sacking her, so she can position herself for a leadership bid next year.
She is the ERGs stooge at the big table. Sunak isn’t so shit he wouldn’t willingly appoint a Home Secretary who was sacked a week earlier for breaching the Ministerial Code. I suspect it was a bit of a test to see how far they could push him.
In all seriousness she does share some of the blame. Instead of opposing war crimes in Gaza she stood with the government and supported them from the outset. Now Israel are out of control and Labour can’t restrict their initial position
It seems like it is not out of the realm of possibility that this could rip the Labour Party apart, holing Starmer below the waterline. There are rumours of a significant number of frontbenchers considering stepping away.
If that does happen, the blame will lie squarely with Starmer. He should have spoken out against the Israeli atrocities from the start, while also denouncing Hamas.
I said that here the day after he gave that radio interview. There must be a lot of people feeling really conflicted, not wanting to vote for a party supporting war crimes, but the alternative of more years of the Tories is unthinkable
I think this must also parallel the Corbyn split which has been festering, but this time that element of Labour is on far better grounds to fight over the issue than it was.
It is the kind of thing that loses elections - those voters won’t vote for Sunak, but they won’t be motivated either.