Ceasefire in Gaza

Last week I was proud to stand alongside 124 other members in calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The SNP amendment was put forward to the house and was unfortunately defeated 293 – 125.

I have huge respect to the 56 Labour MPs who had the guts to put humanity before party politics and vote for the SNP amendment. Unfortunately, neither of Labour’s two Scottish MPs, voted on the motion. In advance of the vote, I intervened on both Rachel Reeves and David Lammy and asked them if they would be voting for a ceasefire but both frontbenchers refused to answer, albeit the writing was on the wall that they wouldn’t be voting in favour of it. History will be the judge of their (in)actions.

The way the Scottish Labour MPs voted also showed once again that “Scottish Labour” is indeed a branch office. Anas Sarwar supposedly leads Scottish Labour and has called for a ceasefire. Yet, had Ian Murray the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland voted that way, Keir Starmer would have sacked him. Proof, once again, that Labour MPs from Scotland are answerable only to their London masters.