{"id":39464,"date":"2023-11-01T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=39464"},"modified":"2023-11-01T06:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:46:44","slug":"330-of-uk-labour-councillors-urge-starmer-to-back-gaza-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/11\/01\/330-of-uk-labour-councillors-urge-starmer-to-back-gaza-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"330 of UK Labour councillors urge Starmer to back Gaza ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 330 Labour councillors have signed a letter urging\u00a0Keir Starmer\u00a0to back a ceasefire in Gaza, despite the Labour leader\u2019s attempts to reassure the party over the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The councillors, two-thirds of whom the Guardian understands are not Muslim, have criticised the party\u2019s refusal to back the policy, which they say is \u201charming communities across the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starmer detailed his position on the crisis\u00a0on Tuesday after mounting criticism from MPs over his stance on the suffering of Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the councillors have urged him to go further and \u201cunequivocally condemn\u201d all acts of violence against civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 330 Labour councillors have signed a letter urging\u00a0Keir Starmer\u00a0to back a ceasefire in Gaza, despite the Labour leader\u2019s attempts to reassure the party over the issue. The councillors, two-thirds of whom the Guardian understands are not Muslim, have criticised the party\u2019s refusal to back the policy, which they say is \u201charming communities across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12283,6848,8440,2629,8331,1828,4691,324,2402,5865,6821,12605,3080],"class_list":["post-39464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-ceasefire","tag-civilians","tag-crisis","tag-gaza","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour","tag-labour-leader","tag-labour-party","tag-mps","tag-muslim","tag-palestinians","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39466,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464\/revisions\/39466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}