Uh oh. Labour is once again facing dissent from its own supporters over the Israel-Gaza conflict. Things came to a head this afternoon when a group of renegades targeted Labour HQ in London by — you guessed it — dousing the building in spray paint.

While other protestors held a march in central London, the vandals stormed the building that houses Labour HQ, covering both outside and inside walls with red paint. The lefty activist group Youth Demand has claimed responsibility for the vandalism, posting a video of the graffiti artists up close and in action on Twitter. In its tweet, the group fumed: ‘Labour has blood on their hands. They are complicit in the murder of Palestinians, and millions of people around the world, as they continue to drive genocide.’ Good heavens.

Youth Demand is calling for both Sir Keir Starmer’s party and the Tories to impose a ‘two-way arms embargo’ on Israel. More than that, the activists used today’s demonstration to push for an end to all new oil and gas licenses — and Mr S doubts readers will be shocked to learn the new group also has links to Just Stop Oil. Quelle surprise…

The protest didn’t impress many on social media — not least because the video showed the vandals wrecking, er, the wrong building floor. An online furore broke out under Youth Demand’s post on Twitter while Baroness Claire Fox summed up the reaction, writing: ‘So smugly proud of themselves… Just make them wash away every last drop of paint and put them on cleaning duty of building for a year or so.’ Quite.

Meanwhile GB News’s Patrick Christys criticised the police for failing to respond to warnings that a spectacle like this was on the horizon. It is now believed that 11 people have been arrested in connection with the incident. Better late than never…

Watch the clip here: