Dozens of MPs have told the prime minister it is "more urgent than ever" to create a Ukraine-style family visa for Gazans with family in the UK.

At the end of June, 67 MPs and peers wrote to Sir Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper , who was home secretary at the time, to create a "Gaza Family Scheme" to "reunite [Palestinians] with their loved ones in the UK until it is safe to return".

They said it could be based on the Ukraine Family Scheme, which allowed Ukrainian nationals from 2022 to February 2024 to join family members in the UK to live, work and study for up to three years.

However, the group told Sky News they have not received a reply in the three months since their request, so Labour MP Marsha de Cordova, who coordinated the letter, has sent another letter to the prime ministe

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