Should Starmer worry about the ceasefire rebellion?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Oscar Edmondson speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews.
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| 0:15.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots |
| 0:21.3 | the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm |
| 0:23.7 | Oscar Edinson and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Kate Andrews. So last |
| 0:28.4 | night Kia Starmer faced his biggest rebellion yet as leader of the |
| 0:31.2 | opposition when 56 of his MPs defied a three-line whip to vote in |
| 0:35.2 | favour of a ceasefire in Gaza. Katie can you take us through the fallout? |
| 0:39.2 | Yes, so as you say, this is 56 Labour MPs who backed the S&P amendment and Labour had tried |
| 0:46.8 | to quell the rebellion by having its own amendment which doesn't go as far as saying a ceasefire but you know talked |
| 0:54.5 | about longer humanitarian pauses and it was a way I think of trying to reduce the |
| 0:58.6 | figure I think you look at the number of labor MPs who rebelled but then I think more specifically that's the number of |
| 1:05.1 | front benches and because eight shallow front benches defied their leader to |
| 1:09.7 | back the ceasefire in Gaza in the Commons vote and I think speaking to figures in |
| 1:16.6 | labour ahead of the vote so yesterday afternoon they were saying it could be |
| 1:20.5 | 10 to 15 and that was their concern. So I think clearly the |
| 1:24.4 | whips and Kiestarma and his team managed to reduce the number slightly but |
| 1:29.0 | you look at some of those who decided to vote and therefore have resigned as shadow ministers such as for example |
| 1:35.5 | Jess Phillips, the Minister for Domestic Violence. |
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