A group of north London councillors have quit Labour in fury at Sir Keir Starmer's stance on Gaza as a grassroots rebellion in the party threatens to boil over.
Three members of Haringey council, the town hall in shadow foreign secretary David Lammy's constituency, resigned to form the Independent Socialist Group on Tuesday. Mark Blake, Lotte Collett and Mary Mason said they were protesting the Labour leader's refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, the "exclusion" of former leader Jeremy Corbyn from the party and what they described as the "abandonment" of progressive pledges.
