Keir Starmer's Gaza problem
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🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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While an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza will be debated in the House of Commons today, all eyes are on Labour. The party has tiptoed around a position on the war in Gaza since the terrorist attacks of October 7th, causing divisions among MPs and supporters. Will Keir Starmer’s eleventh hour call for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” be enough to see off another rebellion and hold his party together in an election year?
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| 1:16.4 | traces of anti-Semitism from the party. It was a plan that was going well |
| 1:21.4 | until October the 7th. |
| 1:27.0 | The Israelis woke up today to find their worst nightmares had come true |
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