Dua Lipa and Benedict Cumberbatch lead group urging Keir Starmer to 'end UK complicity' in Gaza

Published on 29/05/2025 - 17:16 GMT+2

Benedict Cumberbatch, Dua Lipa, Massive Attack, Danny Boyle, Tilda Swinton and Riz Ahmed are among nan hundreds of celebrities urging UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “end UK complicity” successful Gaza. 

The petition was put guardant successful an unfastened missive to nan PM, led by exile kindness Choose Love.  

As highlighted by Sky News, nan missive demands that each UK arms income to Israel beryllium instantly suspended and that nan authorities perpetrate to seeking a ceasefire for “the children of Gaza”. 

“We impulse you to return contiguous action to extremity nan UK’s complicity successful nan horrors successful Gaza,” it reads.  

The missive outlines that children successful Gaza are starving, while capable medicine and nutrient “sit conscionable minutes away” – a reference to nan 11-week blockade of supplies to Gaza by Israel, which was lifted past week. The missive states that 71,000 children nether nan property of 4 are “acutely malnourished”, and they “cry until they can’t outcry anymore – until hunger takes moreover their voices”.  

“You can’t telephone it ‘intolerable’, yet do nothing,” it says straight to Starmer. 

Other celebrated signatories include Primal Scream, Annie Lennox, Lena Headey, Nicola Coughlan, Maxine Peake, Gary Lineker, Lily Cole and more. Activist Munroe Bergdorf, creator Tracey Emin and Holocaust subsister Stephen Kapos person besides signed nan letter.  

The missive ends: “The world is watching and history will not forget. The children of Gaza cannot hold different minute. Prime minister, what will you choose? Complicity successful warfare crimes, aliases nan courageousness to act?” 

Additional sources • Sky News