Starmer Lands At NATO Summit, Ignores Atrocity In Gaza | #NovaraLIVE

Keir Starmer has headed to Washington for the 75th anniversary of NATO. We speak to foreign affairs writer Lily Lynch.

Plus: Keir Starmer shows his hypocrisy on atrocities in Gaza and Ukraine; and Labour are considering one proposal that could see thousands of prisoners released this summer.

00:00 Intro
00:34 Starmer Lands At NATO Summit, but ignores atrocity in Gaza
17:06 Hypocrisy in response to Ukraine/Gaza
23:50 Starmer’s Prisoner Dilemma
48:58 Kwasi Kwarteng Blasted In Newsnight Appearance

With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
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[jeffturner]

Starmer a human rights Lawyer!! Never said 1word of support for Julian Assange what a scum bag! Thank god Julian got out of prison before starmer become priminster! As i think starmer wouldn't have released him.

[DrWrapperband]

My prediction of Blair II being put in power to take the UK into WW3 seems to be coming true even quicker than I thought.

[bernardofitzpatrick]

Stinks of hypocrisy …. joe and starmer.

[HughWP]

Always love these debates on prisons and abolition with dalia and Michael. Novara should dedicate an episode to debate this issue and get people with lived experience of the prison systems (former inmates, parole officers etc) to speak

[prasadrao]

Biden saying the line, we are stronger than ever, cannot be more oxymoronic.

[JohnMcChrystal]

The usual witless soundbites from Starmer delivered in his adenoidal whine. Hypocrisy incarnate, licking the boots of the American war machine.
Gawd help us all.

[karenwilliams]

Starmer is a moral coward able to compartmentalise his moral decisions, or rather amoral decisions. Human rights lawyer, ? Appalling.

[huwdavies]

How would Starmer referee a children's football match between Ukraine and Palestine. At the moment with a shot gun

[Zxykary]

I'm not understanding Dalia's 'point' at all, this felt like a massive waste of a segment. She doesn't seem to have a solution to violent crime beyond getting rid of prisons. I too am somewhat of a prison abolitionist, but I take Michael's position that prisons should be rarely utilised but have conditions that do not just serve to punish those found to be guilty. Part of this would be improving mental health care.

Dalia conflates the "improve prisons" position with "lock people up FOREVER without improving prisons at all" just so she can continue to argue against the status quo instead of what Michael was actually saying. Nobody was saying "forever" except Dalia. There are several different approaches to handling violent crime in between Dalia's position and how things currently are. She further doesn't suggest ANY alternative position at all. I'd be curious to hear how absolute prison absolution would philosophically and politically handle that portion of the population that does exist within reality - but one isn't provided by her. She just wanted to say she's right without backing anything up. Prisons inherently do not create first-time violent offenders, she insists they do.

[Misiu]

Starmer is repugnant. I will never vote labour until they get rid of him

[positivepolitics]

Dalia is such a deeply thoughtful person, so it's so interesting to see how she can't accept a reality where violently dangerous people need to be temporarily detained in places where they are treated with care and love in order to meet everyone's need for safety.

[aguy]

i thought putin had already offered talks but was turned down at the behest of the usa

[Muhr-u-Souleiman]

Thanks a lot Michael Walkee !
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[za.]

Poundshop Blair... utterly depressing to have such a person lacking integrity in charge.

[carinarilk]

Starmer the new/ old WARLORD😂
I don't understand the English people.

[stephen_pfrimmer]

Thank you Michael. Thank you Dalia: thoughtful analysis as usual.

[MT-kxuc]

He has family in Tel is this surprising to people?

[nikmak]

Labour and their activists fucking repulse me.

[fuckbankers]

The whole of Gaza City has been told to evacute to create a killing zone. 😢

[mohammedabdullahi]

Mr Biden can you tell the world about your War of agression on women and children in Gaza?