Labour's fudging amendment won't get it off the hook on Palestine
“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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