12 Oct 2023

UK: Reaction to Israel-Gaza, Starmer glitter-bombed, Luton

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 12 October 2023

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to look at the UK's reaction to the violence in Israel and Gaza, as 17 Britons are thought to be among the missing and dead.

A protester has been arrested after throwing glitter over Labour leader Keir Starmer at the party's conference.

Starmer made a direct appeal to moderate Conservative voters to back Labour at the next election and "face down the age of insecurity".

London's Luton airport was shut down for hours following a large fire in a multi-storey carpark building with no sprinklers.

And an experimental catapult designed to launch World War Two bomber planes into the sky has been excavated.

A protester throws glitter on Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (R) at the start of his keynote address to delegates on the third day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, northwest England, on October 10, 2023. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

A protester throws glitter on Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. Photo: OLI SCARFF