Cambridge city councillors have backed calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and have agreed to consider joining a boycott of Barclays bank. They unanimously passed a motion calling for a ceasefire and setting out some actions the authority can take itself. Cllr Alice Gilderdale (Lab, East Chesterton), who proposed the move, said the council had waited “too long” in bringing a motion on the conflict and could not “continue to watch the horrors in Gaza without speaking out”. The motion that earned cross-party support at last week’s full council meeting (May 23) called on the go…
