Dear Louise,
Do you remember when you spoke truth to power?
I do.
It was June 2025, in a foreign policy debate in the House of Commons. You were a backbencher who was willing to use a term that most of your Labour colleagues at the time – including, shamefully, many on your own front bench – were still too afraid to say out loud. “It is impossible to conclude that this is anything less than a genocide,” you declared. You even called for the Labour government of Sir Keir Starmer to impose immediate “sanctions” on Benjamin Netanyahu and his “genocidal regime”.
You were on the right side of history then. More than a year later, you now have an even bigger opportunity to still be on the right side of history
But, Louise, I have to ask: now that you are a cabinet minister – now that you sit at the table where executive decisions are actually made, as first secretary of state and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, as “the most powerful woman in Britain” – what are you going to do about it?