Labour lost more votes to the left-wing Green Party than to Reform at the local elections last month, polling has shown.

A new study then revealed that over half of former Labour voters who intend to vote for a centre or left-wing party in the next general election cited Israel’s genocide in Gaza as a factor in their decision.

The findings indicate the enormous significance the genocide and the UK’s cooperation with Israel throughout it have had on Starmer’s legacy.

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…in a recent interview with the News Agents podcast, former health secretary Wes Streeting said that Starmer had accused him of sharing a dossier of evidence of Israeli war crimes provided by British doctors who had been to Gaza for “political purposes”, so that it could be leaked.

“When I sent that dossier around, the prime minister accused me of sending around a document that was designed to be leaked,” said Streeting.

“I had met British doctors, I had been distressed by what they told me, I had seen serious and substantial allegations of war crimes being committed and I felt this country had a moral and legal responsibility to respond.”