LABOUR backing for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza was starting to crumble today under pressure from the mass movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

The party tabled a Commons amendment ahead of tomorrow’s debate calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire which means an immediate stop to the fighting and a ceasefire that lasts and is observed by all.”

Labour’s equivocal shift is designed to head off a repetition of the rebellion of November, encompassing more than a quarter of Labour MPs, when MPs last voted on a Gaza ceasefire.