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For critics, the prospect of a Labour government taking away social security payments from some sick and disabled people is at best unpalatable and at worst unconscionable.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian national movement remains divided and dysfunctional, giving Palestinians an unpalatable choice between Hamas and the aging president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

"The previous government left us with an unpalatable inheritance in that respect," Pennycook said.

With big and potentially unpalatable trade-offs looming, what alternatives could there be?

It may be personally unpalatable, but it helps the people Newsom was elected to serve.