OPINION - The Standard View: Keir Starmer's big test on Israel, Gaza and party unity
Just three weeks ago, Sir Keir Starmer was master of all he surveyed. The Labour Party conference in Liverpool was the dictionary definition of message discipline. Everyone from shadow cabinet ministers to ordinary party members appeared in lockstep behind the leader, while the hard-Left was barely a rump. Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel, and the Israeli military’s response, have changed all that.