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found this part particularly relevant,
"A spokesman for Starmer insisted the government had not “withdrawn” the challenge, rather it was not proceeding with “a proposal by the previous government”, which was not formally submitted to the ICC before the UK election on July 4."
rishi and keir, proudly worked hand in hand on a lot of foreign policy. especially around american informed decisions, doubt this is light between them. suggests change might again come from american interests and election plans now biden is out of the way. with kamala being tokenly, more vocal on tightening the clamps on israel, it would seem that pressure has been let off. the uk doing this always did strike me as them doing lap dog stuff that would be desperately unpopular for the us to do domestically. much as we did in iraq.
regardless, great to see months of protesting paying off, people have worked hard to get the political position here, they've been called a lot of stuff over the last 9 months and seen it all off. if you'd told me this would be happening even 5 years ago i'd never have believed you.
there is long way to go. rumours of labour moving to follow the US position of imposing weapons sales bans on "offensive weapons". this move supports that rumour.
https://novaramedia.com/2024/07/25/uk-poised-to-halt-arms-to-israel-and-withdraw-objections-to-netanyahu-arrest-warrant/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-uk-likely-restrict-arms-sales-israel-and-drop-icc-objection
althouh the plan is a slight of hand as there is no formal discretion between the two in law, additionally, defence weapons can include any and all to protect against iran, or other neighbours. which in turn are used on gaza. material impact leaves a lot to be desired, and a lot to protest about.