If the Scottish Labour party are keen to get one message across at their Glasgow conference, it’s that they are the party of change. ‘That is what change means. That is why change matters,’ riffed Anas Sarwar throughout his keynote speech – 14 times, to be precise. But while more specifics about Scottish Labour’s ‘change’ agenda wouldn’t have hurt, the party hardly needs to convince the public that they are committed to it – they’ve changed their position on, er, just about everything.

Perhaps it’s no surprise then that Labour remains in a muddle about its stance on Gaza. While Sarwar used his conference speech to call for an ‘immediate ceasefire’, Ian Murray MP was not quite as clear. Speaking to the conference on Saturday, the Edinburgh South parliamentarian managed to stop just short of calling for an immediate end to the fighting:

‘The situation in Israel and Palestine is heartbreaking and intolerable. We all want the same thing. For the fighting to stop and to stop now and for all hostages to be released. And we need that ceasefire to sustain so there can be a proper process towards a permanent peace with a two-state solution and recognition for Palestine.’

It comes as Keir Starmer announced to the Munich security conference today that he was, in Sarwar’s words, very clear that Labour wants a ceasefire and he wants the fighting to stop right now. But neither MP reiterated Sarwar’s position. In fact, the Scottish Labour leader was keen to play down any party splits. ‘The distance that people are perceiving between the Scottish Labour position and the UK Labour position isn’t, um, big… I would suggest it’s probably not distance at all, to be honest,’ Sarwar told reporters in Glasgow today.

So will Labour support the SNP’s immediate ceasefire motion in the House of Commons on Wednesday? From a party with an exceptional track record of flip-flopping, who knows what to expect…