This week, I added my name to an open letter from Choose Love, calling on the Prime Minister to end the UK’s complicity in the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza.
Alongside artists, doctors, academics, aid organisations, and survivors of historic atrocities like the Holocaust, I joined over 300 signatories — including Benedict Cumberbatch, Riz Ahmed, Brian Cox, and Annie Lennox — to say enough is enough.
We are urging the government to take meaningful action now:
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Suspend all UK arms sales to Israel.
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Ensure immediate humanitarian access into Gaza.
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Work towards a permanent ceasefire.
Right now, over 290,000 children in Gaza are on the brink of starvation. Families are being bombed and starved while international aid sits just minutes away. This isn’t just a foreign policy issue — it’s a moral one.
I believe the UK must always be on the right side of history — not watching atrocities from the sidelines, but doing everything in our power to stop them.
To those in Gaza, to those fighting for justice, and to those who believe in a better, more peaceful world: I stand with you.
You can read the full letter here:
Dear Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
We urge you to take immediate action to end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in Gaza.
Right now, children in Gaza are starving while food and medicine sit just minutes away, blocked at the border. Words won’t feed Palestinian children – we need action.
Every single one of Gaza’s 2.1 million people is at risk of starvation, as you read this. Mothers, fathers, babies, grandparents – an entire people left to starve before the world’s eyes.
290,000 children are on the brink of death – starved by the Israeli government for more than 70 days. They cry until they can’t cry anymore — until hunger takes even their voices. And their parents are left to do the unthinkable: hold them, and wait.
Those who survive starvation wake up to bombs falling on them. Violence stamped with UK inaction – flown with parts shipped from British factories to Israel, could be obliterating families in seconds. Each arms shipment makes our country directly complicit in their deaths.
Over 15,000 children have already been killed – including at least 4,000 under the age of four. Bedrooms where children once slept, kitchens where families shared meals, schools where they learned – all reduced to rubble while Britain stands by.
You can’t call it “intolerable” and keep sending arms.
Every moment this continues, is another moment children die on our watch. This complicity is not inevitable – it is a choice. What do you choose, Prime Minister?
We call on you to:
- Immediately suspend all UK arms sales and licences to Israel
- Use all available means to ensure full humanitarian access across Gaza for experienced aid organisations without military interference
- Make a commitment to the children of Gaza that you will broker an immediate and permanent ceasefire and stop the starvation
History is written in moments of moral clarity. This is one. The world is watching and history will not forget.
The children of Gaza cannot wait another minute. Prime Minister, what will you choose? Complicity in war crimes, or the courage to act?
Signed
Abigail Lawrie
Abnit Nijjar
Afua Hirsch
Aimee Croysdill
Aisling Bea
Aiysha Hart
Akala
Alewya
Alex Eagle
Alex Lockwood
Alex Hannaby
Alex Boateng
Alex Lawther
Alexei Sayle
Alexi Lubomirski
Alexis Bamforth
Alice Aedy
Alison Oliver
Amalia Vitale
Amanda Rajkumar
Amber Massie-Blomfield
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Amy Jackson
Anais Aida
Andi Oliver
Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Kapos
Andrew Wilkinson
Andy Sewell
Anna Hussain
Anna Chancellor
Annabelle Wallis
Annie Lennox
Annie Mac
Anoushka Shankar
April De Angelis
Asif Kapadia
Augustus Prew
Basma Khalifa
Becky Bowe
Becky Hill
Bella Freud
Ben Howard
Benedict Cumberbatch
Bill Paterson
Bimini Bom Boulash
Brian Cox
Brian Eno
Caitriona Balfe
Callum Grieve
Camilla Brady
Camilla Whitehill
Camille Charriere
Candice Brathwaite
Carl Freedman
Carmen Busquets
Cassandra Stavrou
Cathy Runciman
Cecily Eno
Cel Spellman
Celina Teague
Charlene Ryan
Charlie Waterhouse
Charlie Brooker
Charlie Murphy
Chloe Abrahams
Chris O’Dowd
Clare Patey
Clover Hogan
Cosima Davies
Courttia Newland
Dame Harriet Walter
Dame Tracey Emin DBE RA
Dan Smith
Daniel Lismore
Daniel Fathers
Danny Boyle
David Lan
Dawn Butler
Dawn O’Porter
Daze Aghaji
Deanna Rodger
Deborah Curtis
Deborah Frances-White
Deirdre Moran
Denise Gough
Dermot O’Leary
Díana Bermudez
Dr Amir Khan
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta
Dr Inua Ellams. MBE. FRSA. FRSL.
Dr James Smith
Dua Lipa
Dylan Brady
Ed Burnside
Ed Gillespie
Edward Davis
Eleanor Tomlinson
Eleanor Lofters
Elizabeth Slade
Ellis Howard
Emma Findlay
Emma Naomi
Eve De Haan
Eve Ensler
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Farrah O connor
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Jon Hopkins
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Jordan Stephens
Joy Crookes
Julie Hesmondhalgh
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Khalid Abdalla
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Laura Hawkins
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