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Labour backbenchers urge party not to whip them against SNP’s motion calling for immediate ceasefire

Frontbencher says party considering its options on SNP-led Commons vote on ceasefire later this week

Two or three times a year my school would half-empty, leaving the remaining gentiles, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims to twiddle our thumbs. That was because in Ilford, Jewish children were excused for religious holidays. It was, after all, a Jewish community. I grew up in the Ilford North constituency in…

Across the country, Labour is enjoying 20-point leads in the polls. But in individual constituencies, sitting MPs don’t feel so safe. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting is perhaps the most high-profile example. The Ilford North MP is facing a challenge from an independent candidate over a single issue: Gaza.

Pro-Palestinian candidates are working together in capital to unseat politicians who did not support a ceasefire

My conversations with senior staff tell me this: only radical reform will work. If he takes control, Wes Streeting must be brave, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Party’s position has shifted with Keir Starmer now calling for a ‘sustainable ceasefire’ but for some voters it is too little too late

Party says referring common eye problems to optometrists could cut health service waiting lists in England

Prime minister tells MPs no decision has been taken ‘to embark on sustained campaign’ as SNP questions how successful strikes will be

Leanne Mohamad to run against shadow health secretary in next general election amid anger at Labour’s Israel-Gaza stance

Demonstrators demand the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas