It just leaves us so open to these general brick bats of, well, your ideas are borrowed,

your words are borrowed, what is there, what is the substance that's yours, that's your

own. Welcome to Political Fix, your essential

insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times with me, Lucy Fisher. You had there

the FT's Miranda Green, talking about Rachel Reeves, the Labour Shadow Chancellor who's

been beset by apparent plagiarism claims. Also coming up, we'll look back on Rishi

Soonak's first year in office and Happy Anniversary Prime Minister, the next challenging

bi-election that could be looming. I'm joined in the studio by my FT colleagues, George

Parker. Hi, George. Hi, Lucy. Hi, Miranda Green. Hello, Miranda. Hello, Lucy.

Well, the fallout from the Israel Hamas War is causing shock waves around the world.

It's having an effect here in the UK, too. Last week we discussed on the podcast how Labour

was dealing with splits on the issue as councillors quit and protest, and this week those

divisions have only deepened. It's now Shadow Ministers threatening to walk.

So George, on Wednesday evening, Keir Starmer was forced to speak with Muslim Labour MPs

who are very concerned about his position on the crisis. Their central demand was that Labour

should be backing calls backed by some other nations for a ceasefire.

Starmer has said he backs humanitarian pauses the US position, but that doesn't go far enough

for many in his party. I think Keir Starmer will be extremely

glad that the Biden administration has started talking about humanitarian pauses, because

it at least gives him something to say to his many critics and growing number of critics

on his own side, including many Muslim MPs and councillors, Labour councillors, who

he met, as you said, on Wednesday, and there have been at least a couple of dozen councillors

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