QUENTIN LETTS: We can guess who plenty of Labour MPs would cheer in an Israel-Iran penalty shoot-out

Sir Keir Starmer did his 'I'm a moderate' act but the benches behind him wriggled and itched and surged and grumbled. Support Israel ? You could forget about that.

Western forces, including the RAF, had just shot down hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles that could have killed thousands of Israelis. The Commons heard a Rishi Sunak update and was so full that Lee Anderson had to sit next to Jeremy Corbyn . Even Angela Rayner turned up. The celebrated property speculator chatted amicably to Sir Keir. Lucy Powell, on Ms Rayner's other side, was eavesdropping like mad.

Stephen Farry put Mr Netanyahu on the same level as Vladimir Putin. Mohammad Yasin spoke of 'genocide' in Gaza and wanted us to stop exporting weapons to Israel. Several Labour MPs, possibly told not to embarrass Sir Keir, opted for the displacement therapy of demanding that we resume payments to a UN relief agency whose staff allegedly helped Hamas to attack Israel.

George Galloway began a philippic against the London government but rather ran out of runway. He never actually asked a question. That allowed Mr Sunak to make light of the moment and Mr Galloway soon left the chamber.Israel had many more friends on the Conservative benches. Suella Braverman was one of several to demand proscription of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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