Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has again been challenged over her party’s – and her own – failure to demand an end to hostilities between Israel and the people of Gaza.

As the number of innocent people who have been killed in the enclave rises toward 30,000, Rayner told interviewers on ITV’s Good Morning Britain that she would do “everything I possibly could” to stop the slaughter.

Sadly, “everything I possibly could” did not include voting to demand a ceasefire when that motion was put before Parliament. In the interview, Rayner agreed with Richard Madeley’s claim that it would be an empty gesture: “It’s not going to make it happen.”

She dodged questioning about the fact that she had to be escorted by police out of a Labour fundraising event in Stockport after pro-Palestine protesters accused her of standing by while thousands died.

And of course the fact that Rishi Sunak has said the whole of the UK stands by Israel (we don’t), and Labour leader Keir Starmer backed him up to the hilt, went unmentioned.

And then – what about this?

For context: over the weekend, MP Kate Osamor was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party for expressing the opinion that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide. If the official line is that Labour leaders “don’t know” whether a genocide is happening, then that should not have happened; Ms Osamor has a right to her opinion.

Instead, she is out of the (Parliamentary) party, Labour refuses to support calls for Israel to stop murdering innocent Palestinians and party leader Keir Starmer endorses Rishi Sunak’s claim that everybody in the UK wants Israel to carry on killing – while denying that there is any evidence of genocide.

There will be a general election soon. How can anybody vote for this Labour Party when it is nothing but a gang of genocide deniers?

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