“The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion… [W]hile Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”
-Agnès Callamard, Secretary General

"Germany is not merely absorbing this violence, but is refining,
institutionalising, and exporting it. The country has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning
protest..." 2/

That’s reasonable. I would add to it ( contingent to your final thought) a government drawn from those with no significant constituency within their own party: a remnant of a previous Labour, since rejected; whose instinct is authoritarian, and praxis the exclusion of others with other ideas.

And at least two weeks before the Chancellor’s presentation to Parliament.

*does*

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

From what has already been leaked / floated , I’d suggest there’s something to p*ss everyone off. This will be a budget no-one likes from the Chancellor no-one trusts of a government no one wanted.