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Labour's fudging amendment won't get it off the hook on Palestine
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“NO CEASEFIRE, no vote.” That is the chant heard at the biggest demonstrations Britain has seen in 20 years, sustained remarkably week-in, week-out the length and breadth of the country.
For all Labour frontbenchers like Wes Streeting sneer that they won’t be “pushed around by protesters,” it’s a chant which echoes through the halls of Westminster.
That explains the contortions forced on Labour, and even to an extent the Conservatives, over the Scottish National Party’s opposition-day debate motion on a ceasefire today — which MPs of conscience should not have had any problem supporting unamended.
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