Settlement trade ban: Burnham succeeds in weeks where Starmer failed for years

Less than two months have passed since Andy Burnham was installed as British prime minister. He has taken a more relaxed tone than his lacklustre predecessor, Keir Starmer. But there have been growing murmurs of discontent about his failure to deliver substantial changes. On Tuesday, those murmurs were silenced. By imposing a ban on trade with Israeli settlements, Burnham has presided over the most significant change in British foreign policy since Brexit . Tuesday was therefore a day of abject humiliation for Starmer, who was granted two years to call out settler terrorism and ethnic cleansing. Yet rather than taking robust action, he sat on his hands, making Britain complicit.