Keir Starmer sought to portray the Labour party as unified over its position on the Israel-Hamas conflict, as he insisted calls for a ceasefire and humanitarian pauses were “coming from the same place”. Rishi Sunak has described pro-Palestinian protests planned for London on Armistice Day as “provocative and disrespectful”. But Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, accused Sunak of being “deeply irresponsible”. He said: We have made clear that we have no intention of marching anywhere near Whitehall out of respect for events taking place at the Cenotaph. The march will begin around 1245 nearly 2 hours after the minutes silence of commemoration for the war dead. Given these facts we are deeply alarmed by members of the government, including the prime minister, issuing statements suggesting that the march is a direct threat to the cenotaph and designed to disrupt the Remembrance Day commemorations. Such statements are encouraging the calls from far right activists and commentators inciting action on the streets to stop the protests taking place, and are deeply irresponsible. Given the wider context of the previous statements by the home secretary seeking to demonise all of those marching in support of the rights of the Palestinian people, it is clear that these comments are in reality motivated by a desire to suppress widespread public support for an end to Israel’s bombardment of the people of Gaza. Labour has accused Rishi Sunak of using his interview with Elon Musk to position himself for a job after Downing Street, after criticism that the prime minister allowed the billionaire to overshadow his AI safety summit. Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been found guilty at Westminster magistrates court of a racially aggravated public order offence after telling an activist to “go back to Bahrain” during a protest in central London in December last year. An independent Scotland would let asylum seekers work and claim benefits, and introduce an expansive visa system, under Scottish government plans to arrest the country’s declining population.