Andy Burnham last week issued a grovelling apology for Labour’s position on Gaza. In a three-minute social media video, he lamented his party’s weak response to the conflict in Israel while vowing to ‘do better’ on Palestine. A sentence or two was devoted to a bog-standard, tick-box condemnation of anti-Semitism before Burnham returned to listing

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"Andy Burnham knows that war crimes are being committed in Gaza, but has he got the courage to do anything about it?" asked the Greens' deputy leader.