Labour's Gaza policy: can Starmer keep party together?

There is growing backbench dissent over the party's position on the Israel-Hamas war

Keir Starmer
Starmer is thought to be mindful of the views of Jewish voters and MPs
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Labour leader Keir Starmer has met with Muslim MPs and peers amid growing discontent over the party's stance on the Israel-Hamas war.

Starmer has faced criticism since appearing to say in an LBC interview that Israel had the "right" to cut off water and energy to Gaza, although he later said he meant only that the country had a right to self-defence. 

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.