Oh dear. Every time Labour looks just about electable, up pops one of Keir Starmer’s MPs to help make that harder. Today it is the turn of Kate Osamor, one of the hard-of-thinking Corbynites who populate the opposition backbenches. She shot to fame back in 2018 when she threatened a Times reporter with a baseball bat after he had the temerity to ask her about her son’s conviction for drug offences. Nice, eh?

This weekend, Osamor has brought her famed diplomatic talents to the sensitive subject of Holocaust Memorial Day. She used the occasion to, er, call for the Israeli military action in Gaza to be remembered as ‘genocide’, in a message to party members in her Edmonton constituency. Alongside an image of her signing the Holocaust Educational Trust’s commemoration book in Westminster, the North London MP suggested that ‘Gaza’ should be added to a list of ‘recent genocides’ to be remembered alongside the murder of six million Jews.

Osamor, a party frontbencher as recently as December 2018, said that there was an ‘international duty’ to remember the victims of the Holocaust as well as ‘more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza’. Following an outcry, the Labour Whips’ Office has now belatedly moved to strip her of the whip. She has tonight been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party, pending an investigation.

First Tahir Ali’s PMQs rant and now Kate Osamor’s crass comments. Any other Labour MPs want to remind the voters of the talent (or lack thereof) who comprise the Keirleaders?