Decision shows ‘contempt for the victims of the genocide’.
Andy Burnham’s government has hired a US consultancy firm that helped set up a group to run “aid” sites in Gaza where Israeli forces massacred starving civilians.
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will advise on Burnham’s his 10-year plan, the Times reported. The plan, which has yet to be published, has been billed as part of the prime minister’s pledge to end decades of neoliberalism in the UK.
BCG last year had to publicly disavow its role in creating the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which operated four sites where hundreds of people were killed while trying to get food in 2025, as Israel deliberately starved Gaza’s population.
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“Aside from an obvious point that you don’t appoint companies like the Boston Consulting Group if you have any actual intention of ending 40 years of neoliberalism, Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ blueprint is clear ethnic cleansing,” Green party leader Zack Polanski said in a statement.
“The idea that Andy Burnham has invited these people into the heart of Downing Street shows contempt for the victims of the genocide. They must be removed from this project.”
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister. He asks who could possibly object to the IDF starving people to death, conducting forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing all Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He says they’ve got a genocide to do for Israel and to stop objecting.Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband looks on before a meeting during a meeting at the G7 foreign ministers summit in Paris on November 9 (Image: Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)
ED Miliband has been condemned over a “performative” video in which he claimed the UK Government “will not rest until we bring an end to the intolerable suffering in Gaza”.
In a video shared on social media on Monday, the Foreign Secretary said that “the intolerable humanitarian situation in Gaza is getting worse” – but failed to outline the UK’s role in facilitating what the UN has concluded amounts to genocide.
The Foreign Secretary continued: “My message is that the UK Government will not stand by.
“We are demanding the government of Israel ends arbitrary restrictions on humanitarian access, protects humanitarian workers and provides humane treatment and basic welfare for the civilian population of Gaza.”
Miliband said there are “strict legal obligations that the occupying power, Israel, must obey”.
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Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, responded: “It’s important this performative video is met with the scorn that it deserves.
“Silence would be unacceptable.
“But it’s actually worse to have Labour making sad videos whilst continuing to arm a genocide and arrest those who protest. It should be beneath contempt.”
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Former diplomat Craig Murray said: “They are doing absolutely nothing. Israel refuses to let aid in, and Ed just poses.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister. He asks who could possibly object to the IDF starving people to death, conducting forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing all Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He says they’ve got a genocide to do for Israel and to stop objecting.Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
FILE PIC: Jeremy Corbyn takes part in a Palestine Coalition march in central London, January 31, 2026
A PETITION calling for a public inquiry into Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza smashed the 100,000 threshold for a parliamentary debate today.
Your Party is now demanding that Parliament makes time to debate the petition and that the government establishes a fully independent public inquiry into Britain’s involvement since October 2023.
The petition was launched by the party’s chair Jennifer Forbes just over two weeks ago on October 23 after the government blocked a Bill for an independent inquiry.
Your Party’s parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn MP, who tabled the Bill, said: “One hundred thousand people have signed this petition because they want the truth about Britain’s complicity in genocide. They deserve answers, and the Palestinian people deserve justice.
“What weapons were supplied to Israel? What intelligence was gathered over Gaza, and how was it used? What legal advice did ministers receive, and what decisions did they take?
“Parliament must now make time for this debate. But our demand remains a fully independent public inquiry with the power to question those responsible and expose the full extent of Britain’s involvement.
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At 100,000 signatures, petitions are considered for debate by the House of Commons petitions committee, but reaching the threshold does not automatically guarantee a debate or establish an inquiry.
Your Party said that the milestone sends a clear message that the public will continue demanding answers about decisions taken in their name.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister. He asks who could possibly object to the IDF starving people to death, conducting forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing all Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He says they’ve got a genocide to do for Israel and to stop objecting.Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
Fossil Free London held the first of six protests planned for the next fortnight [Pic: Fossil Free London]
As ministers head to Cop31, climate campaigners are taking their fight to the Treasury, demanding Labour abandons new fossil fuel projects and steps up its green ambitions
A FORTNIGHT of protests against fossil fuels began outside the Treasury today as ministers headed to Turkey for the Cop31 climate summit.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham is expected to enter his first climate talks as PM tomorrow, but Fossil Free London called his record on the question “abysmal” and Friends of the Earth demanded higher taxes on the oil and gas industry to fund environmental clean-ups and climate mitigation.
Fossil Free London held the first of six protests planned for the next fortnight, demanding the government rule out approval of the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea.
Its director Robin Wells said: “We know that [Cop31] is a busman’s holiday for the fossil fuel industry, and usually awash with an oil slick of fossil fuel lobbyists.
“Andy Burnham’s record on climate so far is abysmal. Not only did he grant Shell a climate-wrecking gas field, Jackdaw, the government has just cut the warm homes programme, pledged to veto new wind farms and will potentially roll back the electric vehicle mandate.”
Rejecting Rosebank would place Labour on a collision course with industry unions, which argue the collapse of the North Sea oil and gas industry without a planned transition to renewables would abandon communities and threaten energy security.
Friends of the Earth said the government should go further than rejecting Rosebank by vetoing expansion of Heathrow airport and placing a moratorium on the construction of new data centres.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he’s delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election – don’t want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
The Prime Minister and Keir Starmer need to come clean about whether they have put UK citizens at risk by participating in Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran
Britain’s role in the Iran war has been branded potentially unlawful by legal experts, fuelling demands for ministers to reveal what evidence justified allowing US forces to use UK bases
BRITAIN’S involvement in the Iran war is unlawful, legal experts have said, raising concerns that a new “dodgy dossier” compelled Sir Keir Starmer into the disastrous Middle East conflict.
A legal opinion by law firm Leigh Day concluded that there were serious grounds to question whether Britain is facilitating unlawful military action.
In March, the US and Israel attacked Iran without telling their allies, sending global fuel prices soaring — with no end to the war in sight.
Then-PM Sir Keir was criticised by US President Donald Trump after refusing his demands to allow the US to use British bases for the initial wave of attacks.
A day later, the Labour leader said that he had been moved to allow the “limited” use of British military bases for so-called defensive operations. Sir Keir told MPs that he had been guided by law and the “national interest” following retaliatory strikes by Iran.
The legal opinion states: “We have been advised that there is an argument that the US’s status as the aggressor in the conflict means that any operations justified on the basis of collective self-defence are likely to fail to meet the necessity criterion.
“This is because the US need not conduct defensive strikes in response to the armed attacks on the Gulf states: it could bring Iran’s attacks on the Gulf states to an end by ceasing its own military action against Iran.
“If this is right, the US has no right under international law to act in defence of the Gulf states, and the UK’s purported justification for the US’s use of UK bases entirely falls away.”
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister. He asks who could possibly object to the IDF starving people to death, conducting forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing all Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He says they’ve got a genocide to do for Israel and to stop objecting.
FILE PIC: Jeremy Corbyn takes part in a Palestine Coalition march in central London, January 31, 2026
