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Diary

The Tories didn’t lose Mid Bedfordshire – Labour won it

28 October 2023

9:00 AM

28 October 2023

9:00 AM

In 1975 I travelled as an undergraduate to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and finally to Israel. I visited refugee camps and met a Palestinian militant, Bassam Abu Sharif, who had been blinded in one eye by a Mossad parcel bomb. I talked to policymakers in each country and heard a range of Israeli opinion.

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