Four Labour shadow cabinet members are on resignation watch tonight after Keir Starmer failed to quell Labour wrath over the Israel-Hamas conflict – as the party faces a possible implosion following the leader’s silence on Gaza at PMQs.
Sources close to the Labour leader have claimed MPs including shadow faith minister Sarah Owen and shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Hopkins are the subject of a ‘real operation’ to prevent them stepping down following a row over Sir Keir’s comments on Israel’s siege of Gaza.
It followed an interview with LBC in which he appeared to argue Israel had a ‘right’ to cut off vital supplies to the region, before issuing an urgent clarification claiming he had meant the nation actually had a ‘right’ to self-defence.
