DECISION-TIME looms for Sir Keir Starmer as Scottish Labour united at the weekend to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

As they have done since the Israeli invasion began, those fighting for peace and justice for the people of Palestine gathered in Glasgow’s George Square on Saturday, but this week some 7,000 took their rally to the doorstep of the city’s Scotland Event Campus as Scottish Labour faced the debate.

Leader Anas Sarwar had earlier told the conference of his concerns about a further escalation in the conflict, condemning “the offensive threatened on Rafah, a place where one-and-a-half million people are now cramped together in unimaginable conditions with nowhere else to go.