CREDIT where credit’s due. Andy Burnham’s apology for Labour’s record on Palestine is tribute to the resilience of the mass Palestine solidarity movement.It’s a belated recognition of the damage done to Labour by its support for a live-streamed genocide, though Burnham daren’t use the word.That has been obvious since 2024, when the election of five independent MPs on a Gaza solidarity ticket was a political earthquake — unseating one of Labour’s most senior politicians, Jonathan Ashworth, and coming close to toppling another (Wes Streeting).

CREDIT where credit’s due. Andy Burnham’s apology for Labour’s record on Palestine is tribute to the resilience of the mass Palestine solidarity movement.

It’s a belated recognition of the damage done to Labour by its support for a live-streamed genocide, though Burnham daren’t use the word.

That has been obvious since 2024, when the election of five independent MPs on a Gaza solidarity ticket was a political earthquake — unseating one of Labour’s most senior politicians, Jonathan Ashworth, and coming close to toppling another (Wes Streeting).

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