Britain’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, has on the matter of Israel been zig zagging like someone who has imbibed too much whiskey. One minute he’s declaring he wants to establish a Palestinian state, the next he’s standing firmly with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Meantime, there is a voice that couldn’t be clearer. 

Meet Kemi Badenoch, the ambitious business secretary in Britain’s Conservative government. She also holds the Women and Equalities brief. “There can be no peace with a terrorist organisation that uses children as pawns, rape as a weapon of war and causes the suffering of civilians in Israel and Gaza,” she said on Wednesday at Parliament during a conference about sexual violence.