Labour MPs that voted for ceasefire in Gaza, against leader Keir Starmer’s demands, could cause a split in party over the conflict.
Starmer had told his Labour MPs to abstain from a vote calling for a ceasefire in Gaza last night.
However, 56 rebelled anyway and await any disciplinary matters from the party machine.
Gaza Strip
The Israeli air force dropped leaflets in eastern areas of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, telling people to evacuate to shelters for their own safety – suggesting imminent military operations in the area.
Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, has said Israel cannot leave a vacuum in Gaza saying: “If we pull back, then who will take over? We can’t leave a vacuum. We have to think about what will be the mechanism; there are many ideas that are thrown in the air … But no one will want to turn this place, Gaza, into a terror base again.“
Labour MPs that voted for ceasefire in Gaza
Of all of the dissenters, eight of them were frontbenchers.
Four of those were shadow ministers: Jess Phillips, Yasmin Qureshi, Afzal Khan and Paula Barker.
In total, MPs voted 293 to 125 to reject the amendment calling for “all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza strip, which means it was rejected by a majority of 168.
The 56 Labour MPs who rebelled are…
Marsha De Cordova (Battersea)
Peter Dowd (Bootle)
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central)
Mary Kelly Foy (City of Durham)
Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
Margaret Greenwood (Wirral West)
Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
Kate Hollern (Blackburn)
Rachel Hopkins (Luton South)
Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton)
Imran Hussain (Bradford East)
Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton)
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck)
Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields)
Clive Lewis (Norwich South)
Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles)
Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham, Perry Barr)
Rachael Maskell (York Central)
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington)
Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
Grahame Morris (Easington)
Kate Osamor (Edmonton)
Kate Osborne (Jarrow)
Sarah Owen (Luton North)
Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley)
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East)
Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Streatham)
Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown)
Naz Shah (Bradford West)
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith)
Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Alex Sobel (Leeds North West)
Zarah Sultana (Coventry South)
Sam Tarry (Ilford South)
Stephen Timms (East Ham)
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth)
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South)
Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East)
Beth Winter (Cynon Valley)
Mohammad Yasin (Bedford)
Tahir Ali (Birmingham, Hall Green)
Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting)
Paula Barker (Liverpool, Wavertree)
Apsana Begum (Poplar and Limehouse)
Clive Betts (Sheffield South East)
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central)
Karen Buck (Westminster North)
Richard Burgon (Leeds East)
Dawn Butler (Brent Central)
Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby)
Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton)
Sarah Champion (Rotherham)
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham)
Judith Cummins (Bradford South)
Rayner
Angela Rayner wrote on X: “We all want the violence to end. I understand and respect those calling for a ceasefire now and I’m deeply sorry to have lost valued colleagues from the frontbench.”
Then added: “The international community has demanded that the siege conditions on Gaza be lifted, but that has still not happened. That is totally unacceptable and it cannot continue.”
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