Sir Keir Starmer was on Thursday facing a simmering grassroots rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza crisis amid warnings that more councillors could quit to support independent candidates at the general election.
The Labour leader may have defused, at least temporarily, a revolt among his shadow ministers over his position on the Middle East conflict. But local politicians said there was still “enormous anger” at the way he handled the wake of the October 7 attacks on Israel and its response.
