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If Keir Starmer isn’t careful, Gaza could do for him what the Iraq war did for Blair | Martin Kettle
Many Muslim voters turned against Labour in the local elections, and the continuing conflict only heightens the risk of alienating others
How does Keir Starmer avoid Gaza doing to his Labour party what the Iraq war did to Tony Blair’s a generation ago? Or does the prospect not really worry him?
Amid so many good results for Labour in last week’s English local elections, Gaza’s undiminished capacity to drive a significant minority of Labour voters elsewhere cannot be overlooked. Israel’s latest incursion into Rafah, and the possibility of a full military onslaught there, is a reminder that, though it is fairly far down the list of the conflict’s grim realities, the Gaza war is increasingly disruptive for Labour.
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