And very, very lucky to be in thejob. This week, this rebellion about benefits must have felt painfully familiar to you. You were political adviser to Harriet Harman when she was the Welfare Secretary Way back in 1997, just after labour had won a landslide. I remember it like it was yesterday. Tony blair and Gordon Brown outraged many of their own natural supporters by cutting lone parent benefit. And you were at the centre of it. Does it feel familiar . It does. But it also, you know, i know what harriet achieved. My god, she was a powerful champion for change. And if i look at our time in government, we had the first ever national childcare strategy. We had the new dealfor lone parents to help them get into work, family friendly working for the first time, Maternity And Paternity pay and leave. So i know how tough it was at the beginning. But i also know at the end of our time in office, the Big Changes we put in place, which really was a powerful feminist agenda. Is that the lesson
Support for israel in his address. But several us lawmakers have said they wont attend. In a statement, the number two ranking democrat in the senate, dick durbin, says i will stand by israel, but i will not stand and cheer its current Prime Minister. And lets hearfrom democratic senator Chris Van Hollen All Of Us who care about our partnership, both in america and in israel, should understand the enormous damage that prime Minister Netanyahu and his current extremist Government Coalition are doing to our relationship and to israels standing in the world. So, Mr President , it sends a terrible message to bring him here now to address a joint session of congress. On tuesday, around 200 demonstrators staged a Sit In at the capitol in protest against the war in Gaza And Mr netanyahus speech. And relatives of hostages still being held by hamas In Gaza protested on capitol hill, urging us and israeli leaders to finalise a deal to bring them home. Ahead of Mr Netanyahus Address to congress,
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