The UK’s first pro-Palestine national march to be staged outside London is expected by organisers to attract tens of thousands of people on the periphery of the Labour party conference in Liverpool.The 19th “national march for Palestine” will start at midday on Saturday near Lime Street railway station and end near King’s Dock, where Keir Starmer’s party is gathering this weekend.Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), said demonstrators would call for an immediate arms embargo rather than what he described as the “inadequate partial suspension” of arms export licences to Israel that was announced this month.He said: “The Labour government knows that Israel is committing crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. But instead of honouring its obligations under international law, it is still seeking to shield Israel from accountability.”Organisers, including the PSC, Stop the War, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Muslim Association of…
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