Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has posed a fascinating counter-factual question about our Prime Minister: what if Keir Starmer rather than Winston Churchill had been Prime Minister in World War Two?

Huckabee’s characterisation of him as the arch appeaser may be a little harsh, but it does have the ring of truth.

The undiplomatic taunting of the Prime Minister by President Trump’s chosen envoy in Jerusalem is Huckabee’s response to Starmer’s decision for Britain to recognise a Palestinian state next month, and a reply to his criticism yesterday of Israel’s coming full military occupation of Gaza city, which Starmer says will only lead to more starvation and suffering for the Palestinian people.

Referring to the devastating bombing of the German city of Dresden in February

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