LONDON: The UK Labour Party has ruled out dozens of motions on Palestine from being debated at its annual conference in Liverpool, prompting criticism from grassroots members and campaign groups who accused party officials of stifling debate, it was revealed on Saturday. The party’s Conference Arrangements Committee, or CAC, said that more than 30 motions submitted by local constituency Labour parties and affiliated organizations were ruled out of order because the issue had already been substantially addressed in the National Policy Framework, or NPF, report published in August.

Calls for sanctions on Israel and ban on trade that aids international law violations among snubbed motions

LONDON: The UK Labour Party has ruled out dozens of motions on Palestine from being debated at its annual conference in Liverpool, prompting criticism from grassroots members and…