The Guardian’s interview with the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was refreshing, instructive and timely (‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right, 3 September). He cites Spain’s welcoming and economically pragmatic approach to migrants, “migration is an opportunity”, and criticises Europe’s paltry and pathetic response to the systematic destruction of Gaza and the denial of civilians’ basic human rights.
This contrasts starkly with other European leaders including, notably, Keir Starmer, a former international human rights lawyer, who in May said that Britain risked becoming “an island of strangers”, and whose government recently announced the cruel suspension of a scheme to reunite refugees with their family members in the UK.
