Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has refused calls from within his party to call for a ceasefire, saying that a humanitarian pause should take place because stopping hostilities entirely would allow Hamas to regroup and re-arm. Join us tomorrow from 6am for all the latest political news.Īs we reported a short while ago, the SNP has this evening tabled an amendment to the King's Speech to force a vote in parliament on calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war (see previous post). And the RMT union said it had reached an agreement with rail operators that it will now put to its members - and if accepted, strikes at Christmas will be called off.Lord Mark Sedwill also said that the "brutal and useless" Johnson team were like "wild animals". The COVID inquiry continued today, with the former head of the Civil Service saying that cabinet governance was "clearly undermined" and Boris Johnson's administration was more like an "opposition party coming into power".Elsewhere, two more Tory ministers distanced themselves from Suella Braverman's comments labelling the pro-Palestine protests "hate marches" and saying rough sleeping is a "lifestyle choice".He vowed to hold the police "accountable" should there be any disorder, however.After Sir Mark Rowley said the legal threshold had not been reached to ban the march, the prime minister conceded that it will go ahead.The row over whether the pro-Palestine march planned for Armistice Day on Saturday should go forward reached a head today, with Rishi Sunak calling in the Met Police chief to discuss it.Thank you for joining us on the Politics Hub for another busy day in Westminster.
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