MPS have voted to declare Palestine Action a proscribed group.
The legislation naming the direct action group as a terrorist organisation has been supported by the Commons, with just 26 MPs voting against the move – although six of these were part of a double vote, which was done as an abstention.
The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 is now expected to be debated and voted on by the House of Lords on Thursday before it becomes law.
The SNP and the LibDems abstained, while 87 Tories and 275 Labour MPs supported the effort.
According to the parliamentary record, the only MPs to vote against the proscription were:
Greens:
- Sian Berry - Ellie Chowns - Carla Denyer - Adrian RamsayIndependent: - Shockat Adam - Aspana Begum - Jeremy Corbyn - Adnan Hussain - John McDonnell - Zarah SultanaLabour:
- Diane Abbott - Tahir Ali - Richard Burgon - Ian Byrne - Imran Hussain - Kim Johnson - Clive Lewis - Grahame Morris - Nadia Whittome
SDLP:
- Colum Eastwood
LibDem (voted both Yes and No as a method of abstention):
- Andrew George - Tom Gordon - Tessa Munt - Manuela Perteghella - Al Pinkerton - Luke Taylor
How Scottish Labour MPs voted
All of the Scottish Labour MPs to vote on this matter voted for Palestine Action to be made a proscribed organisation. Those MPs were:
- Ian Murray - Douglas Alexander - Kirsty McNeill - Michael Shanks - Scott Arthur - Richard Baker - Maureen Burke - Irene Campbell - Torcuil Crichton - Graeme Downie - Patricia Ferguson - Alan Gemmell - Tracy Gilbert - Lillian Jones - Chris Kane - Douglas McAllister - Martin McCluskey - Gordon McKee - Frank McNally - Chris Murray - Katrina Murray - Gregor Poynton - Martin Rhodes - Euan Stainkbank - Kevin Stevenson - Elaine Stewart - Kirsteen Sullivan - Alison Taylor - Imogen Walker
There were no votes recorded for:
- Zubir Ahmed - Johanna Baxter - John Grady - Brian Leishman - Blair McDougall - Pamela Nash - Joani Reid - Melanie Ward
Other Scottish MPs
No vote was recorded for any of Scotland's nine SNP MPs, who are understood to have felt the specifics of the motion meant they could not vote against it.
The proscription order did not relate solely to Palestine Action, but includes three other groups: the "Maniacs Murder Cult", a Moldovan neo-Nazi group, the Russian Imperial Movement – a far-right group aiming to rebuild the Russian Empire – and its paramilitary wing the Russian Imperial Legion.
The SNP did not want to be seen to vote against proscribing those organisations.
Meanwhile, no vote was recorded for Scotland's six LibDem MPs.
Four Scottish Tory MPs – Harriet Cross, John Cooper, Andrew Bowie and David Mundell – voted to proscribe Palestine Action, while no vote was recorded for John Lamont.
