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Labour cabinet splits over Assad

13 December 2024

9:53 PM

13 December 2024

9:53 PM

Another day, another Labour drama. It now transpires that Sir Keir Starmer’s army is in turmoil over a previous Labour party’s response to Bashar al-Assad’s regime – with one current Cabinet Secretary taking a pop at another. Talk about trouble in paradise, eh?

Appearing on BBC Question Time, Health Secretary Wes Streeting remarked that ‘if the West had acted faster, Assad would have been gone’.

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