Starmer hits out at claim Tories can’t win election ahead of difficult Gaza ceasefire vote

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Keir Starmer has hit out at claims the Conservatives can’t win the subsequent election as Labour faces one other difficult week over its stance on Gaza.

The Labour chief stated it was “ridiculous” to counsel Rishi Sunak couldn’t safe one other time period as prime minister.

His warning to his celebration, and its potential voters, got here because the SNP supplied Sir Keir a gathering over this week’s anticipated Commons vote on a ceasefire within the Middle East.

Sir Keir suffered a blow earlier than Christmas when 10 of his frontbenchers give up or had been sacked after a mass rise up over an analogous vote.

Labour has but to say the way it will instruct its MPs to vote this week, saying it must see the wording of the SNP movement.

Sir Keir instructed Scottish Labour’s convention in Glasgow that Labour needs as a “ceasefire that lasts” in Gaza and the combating should “stop now”.

The Labour chief instructed delegates “we all want to see a return of all the hostages taken on October 7th, an end to the killing of innocent Palestinians, a huge scaling up of humanitarian relief and an end to the fighting. Not just for now, not just for a pause, but permanently. A ceasefire that lasts. That is what must happen now. The fighting must stop now.”

Earlier Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called on the SNP, who face losing potentially dozens of seats to Labour at the election, to work with them on the ceasefire motion.

In his speech, Sir Keir warned some communities have found a new “political home” in the SNP and winning them back would be hard.

He added: “No matter what the SNP say the Tories can win the next election. Of course they can, politics is volatile. It’s ridiculous to say otherwise.

“So I would also say this. Imagine – even if only for a second – what it will feel like if you wake up on the day after the election, and the Tories are back. Encouraged again, emboldened again, entitled again.”

Earlier, former Labour Leader Lord Kinnock said he was “convinced now that we’re not going to lose.”

Asked on Sky News whether or not Sir Keir can be in 10 Downing Street, he stated: “Yes. And I look forward to that very much because I think he would be a mature, honest, dependable leader of a party. And by God, we need all that now.”

Last week Labour was pressured to ditch its candidate within the upcoming Rochdale by-election after he claimed Israel had allowed the Hamas bloodbath that killed 1,200.