Keir Starmer has said Jeremy Corbyn’s “days as a Labour MP are over” after the former party leader repeatedly refused to call Hamas a terrorist organisation.
Corbyn was repeatedly asked in an interview on TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored programme on Monday whether he thought Hamas was a terrorist group.
Hamas – which was responsible for killing 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October and kidnapping a further 240 – are proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK and support for them is banned.
Starmer faced a bruising week on the issue of the Israel-Hamas war after a major rebellion in the Commons against the party’s position of calling for pauses in the violence but not going so far as to demand a ceasefire.
He had put Labour MPs on a three-line whip not to vote for a Scottish National party (SNP) motion calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities.
Afzal Khan, Yasmin Qureshi, Paula Barker and Naz Shah were among the shadow junior ministers who resigned on Wednesday after abstaining from the vote, while Jess Phillips, Rachel Hopkins, Sarah Owen and Andy Slaughter left their frontbench roles after backing the amendment.
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Keir Starmer has said Jeremy Corbyn’s “days as a Labour MP are over” after the former party leader repeatedly refused to call Hamas a terrorist organisation.
Corbyn was repeatedly asked in an interview on TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored programme on Monday whether he thought Hamas was a terrorist group.
Hamas – which was responsible for killing 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October and kidnapping a further 240 – are proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK and support for them is banned.
Starmer faced a bruising week on the issue of the Israel-Hamas war after a major rebellion in the Commons against the party’s position of calling for pauses in the violence but not going so far as to demand a ceasefire.
He had put Labour MPs on a three-line whip not to vote for a Scottish National party (SNP) motion calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities.
Afzal Khan, Yasmin Qureshi, Paula Barker and Naz Shah were among the shadow junior ministers who resigned on Wednesday after abstaining from the vote, while Jess Phillips, Rachel Hopkins, Sarah Owen and Andy Slaughter left their frontbench roles after backing the amendment.
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