Macron Has Put France on the Road to the Abyss: Starmer Could Do the Same with Britain

When I first heard that Emmanuel Macron was planning to recognise a state of Palestine, I wondered whether it might be worth asking him to do us all a favour and recognise Britain as having resolved its problem with small boats?

He could recognise his own country as being in the same position, come to that, with a stable government that isn’t likely to be toppled by an insurgent party, an economy that hasn’t been labelled as the EU’s “number one budgetary basket case”, and no hint of a problem with Jews.

Between 2000 and 2017, one in ten French Jewish people emigrated to Israel. Those numbers have only risen since; such is the state of anti-Semitism in the Republic that in Tel Aviv you can now buy a very decent baguette.