The visit of the Syrian President is perhaps the lowest point in Labour’s statecraft of late, following after key staff exits and rapidly cooling relations between the UK and America – all as a result of Starmer’s slowing agenda.
The poster boy of Syrian politics cum sectional warfare is no bedfellow of the UK way of life.
While some decisions he’s made are set to benefit some Syrians, his rise is a local tale but nowhere near being inspirational for the free world.
The Prime Minister can do better than to mix with leaders fraught with divided loyalties and dull sympathies to human rights.