- The Telegraph
Claiming Labour will defend Britain’s borders is a sick joke
It’s always the activists I feel sorry for when someone crosses the floor. There you are in the Dover constituency Labour Party, plugging away in a seat your party held until 2010 and which, given the state of the polls, you might have a chance of picking up at the general election. And then one statement from Natalie Elphicke and, all of a sudden, you’re pounding the pavement alongside the very Tory against whom you’ve been campaigning so hard for four years. It’s a rum deal, even if they are p
- Reuters
UPDATE 1-Israel pessimistic on Gaza truce talks, but delegation remains in Cairo
Israel sees no sign of a breakthrough in Egyptian-mediated talks on a truce with Hamas that would free some Gaza hostages, but is keeping its delegation of mid-level negotiators in Cairo for now, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. William Burns, the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, was in Israel meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a possible suspension of the Israeli operation in Gaza's Rafah in return for a hostage release, the official added.
