Keir Starmer Suffers Major Rebellion in Gaza Ceasefire Vote

Published on November 16, 2023

Sir Keir Starmer lost ten frontbenchers on Wednesday as more than a quarter of Labour MPs rebelled to vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Labour proposed an alternative amendment to the King’s Speech Motion to back “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, but 56 Labour MPs, including eight junior shadow ministers and two parliamentary private secretaries, crossed the party line to support Scottish National Party’s (SNP) amendment to back a ceasefire. The eight MPs who resigned as shadow ministers to back a ceasefire include Shadow home office ministers Jess Phillips and Naz Shah, shadow defence minister Rachel Hopkins, shadow levelling-up ministers Paula Barker and Sarah Owen, shadow exports minister Afzal Khan, shadow equality minister Yasmin Qureshi, and shadow solicitor general Andy Slaughter....

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