Starmer wobbles on Gaza under protest pressure
LABOUR backing for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza was starting to crumble today under pressure from the mass movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The party tabled a Commons amendment ahead of tomorrow’s debate calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire which means an immediate stop to the fighting and a ceasefire that lasts and is observed by all.”
Labour’s equivocal shift is designed to head off a repetition of the rebellion of November, encompassing more than a quarter of Labour MPs, when MPs last voted on a Gaza ceasefire.
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