I just don’t think the optics look good on this. If ever the government needed a positive PR news story this isn’t it!

Sure claim collective responsibility on whether to defund the NHS and whip your colleagues for that in peace time, but taking a humanitarian view and calling for a ceasefire during a humanitarian crisis should never be met with the loss of a job. It’s just dumb politics. You’d have thought they could have reprimanded him privately, or put out a statement saying this wasn’t government policy. But to go to the extreme of firing is just brain dead.

Rishi Sunak is Netanyahu’s bitch

What a weird government we have

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A ministerial aide has been sacked from his government role after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Downing Street said Paul Bristow had made comments which “were not consistent with the principles of collective responsibility”.

In a letter to the prime minister last week, Mr Bristow said “a permanent ceasefire” would save lives and allow aid to reach those who needed it most.

During Prime Minister’s Questions last week, Rishi Sunak said “specific pauses” would allow more aid into Gaza but he rejected calls to back a ceasefire, stressing that Israel had a right to defend itself.

A Downing Street spokesman said: “Paul Bristow has been asked to leave his post in government following comments that were not consistent with the principles of collective responsibility.”

In his letter to the prime minister on Thursday, Mr Bristow, wrote: "My constituents and I are deeply grieved by the heart-breaking and devastating humanitarian crisis now unfolding in Gaza.

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