from a terrible election result, and most people, the pessimists in the party, thought that the labour party will never, ever win an election again. the optimists thought it would take us at least ten years. we have ruthlessly changed the labour party, put ourselves in a position where we can credibly contend in the election this year, and the overwhelming majority of labour party members and supporters are delighted, because the reason that theyjoined the labour party, the reason they�*re active in the labour party, is because we want a labour government. and a lot of your colleagues would say that you�*ve got to that position actually by being ruthless about ditching some of your own positions, and one of the things that many labour members and many of our viewers also care about is a ceasefire in gaza. now, we are 100 days into the conflict between israel and gaza after those appalling attacks by hamas into israel, the israeli bombardment of gaza has