SNP welcomes Labor call for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza, claiming it forced Starmer into U-turn – UK politics live

 

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The SNP statement (see 3.27pm) implies that they will vote for the Labor amendment, but the party has not said that explicitly yet. My colleague Libby Brooks, who has been seeking clarification on this point, has sent me this. While Stephen Flynn says he welcomes Starmer's “apparent” support for their position in a “long overdue U-turn”, the SNP says it's unable to confirm whether it would accept the Labor amendment because – this is getting more mired in Commons procedure by the second – Firstly, they haven't seen the final wording of that amendment and secondly, they don't know yet whether than amendment will be taken by the speaker and how it might interact with other amendments, for example put forward by the government. The situation is a bit more complicated than usual because tomorrow is an opposition day debate – a debate on a motion selected by an opposition party, in this case the SNP – and the rules about when amendments are called are different on these occasions. Normally MPs vote on the amendment to the motion first, and then the main motion (or the main motion as amended, if the amendment passes) later. Tomorrow the main motion will be the SNP one. If the government tables an amendment, that will be taken after the vote on the main motion (a rule that is in place to ensure that opposition parties do get the chance once in a while to actually vote on a motion they have tabled). But if another opposition party tables an amendment, that would be taken before the vote on the main motion. One possible outcome tomorrow is that the Labor amendment gets put to a vote first, it passes, and then it becomes the motion passed by the house as a whole. (Tory MPs won't vote against it because it is more or less identical to the position as set out by David Cameron, the foreign secretary.) But we don't know yet whether the speaker will actually call the Labor amendment. And we don't know yet whether the government will table its own amendment. According to ITV's Robert Peston, if it does, the Labor one won't get called.

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