National Education Union leader says morale among teachers is at ‘an all time low’ in radio interview
David Cameron, the foreign secretary, has welcomed Israel’s announcement that it will hold an inquiry into the airstrike that killed seven aid workers, including three Britons, in Gaza.
Speaking to reporters at the Nato summit, the former PM said:
I welcome what the Israeli foreign minister said yesterday to me about a full, urgent and transparent inquiry into how this dreadful event was allowed to happen, and we want to see that happen very quickly.
I also welcome the fact he spoke about much more aid getting into Gaza, up to 500 trucks a day.
In a report to the NEC last week, the party’s general secretary, David Evans, caused surprise when he revealed that membership, which had stood at 390,000 in January, had plummeted to 366,604 at the latest count, with more than 11,700 of these being in arrears. Labour membership reached a peak at the end of 2019 when it hit over 532,000.
One senior Labour figure who was there said: “It is a big fall in just two months. People were surprised, even taken aback.”
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