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Coming up, Labour are in meltdown as Kirstama faces mounting criticism from inside his own party over his stance on the Middle East conflict, which is a bit confusing.

A Gaza ground invasion is on the way, but the Israeli Prime Minister won't say when or how it'll happen.

And BBC Newsround is slammed over teaching kids all about white privilege.

What are they thinking?

Welcome back to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

Lots going on this morning.

We're going to be talking about the Labour Party.

We're going to be talking about, of course, the ground invasion in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised it is going to happen. He just won't absolutely say when.

The Israeli Defence Force have posted this footage of their targeted raid using tanks in the territory of the northern Gaza Strip.

And they said the troops left the area at the end of

the mission. So we keep our eyes very much firmly focused on the Middle East. But for right now,

we're going to take that focus back to Britain, because the Labour Party have suddenly found

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