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UK’s Starmer calls for a ‘ceasefire that lasts’ in Israel’s war on Gaza

UK's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks on the third day of the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow [Andy Buchanan/AFP]

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has said a ceasefire that lasts “must happen now” between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The opposition leader’s comments, at a Scottish Labour Party conference in Glasgow, came on Sunday as he faces renewed pressure to back an “immediate ceasefire” in a conflict that has killed about 29,000 Palestinians.

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