Crossing accusations of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism roil UK politics. Conservative Party expels MP Lee Anderson for accusing the mayor of London of being a hostage to Islamist fanaticism.

The president of Parliament, on the tightrope over a motion calling for a ceasefire in the region, is still a Labor member. A real war, the one between Israel and Hamas, has stirred up other minor wars that have clouded the political debate in the United Kingdom for years: the cultural war promoted by the hard wing of the Conservative Party.