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Lorin Bell-Cross

Lorin Bell-Cross

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‘Student union nonsense’: Labour MPs attack colleagues over inflammatory Gaza statements

‘Ignorant’ language will not end the war, warned one frontbencher

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MPs during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons

MPs have been left outraged after the Speaker's Chaplain inserted Gaza into morning prayers (Pictured: Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle; Image: Alamy)

Speaker’s Chaplain inserts prayer for Gaza into Commons opening without mentioning hostages

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Sir Keir Stamer at PMQs (Image: UK Parliament)

Starmer condemns ‘appalling’ Israeli military action in PMQs dominated by Gaza

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog (centre) meeting a Labour Friends of Israel delegation. (L-R: Peter Prinsley MP, Baroness Berger, Jon Pearce MP, Isaac Herzog, Mark Sewards MP, Cat Eccles MP, Kevin McKenna MP)

Labour MPs make Israel visit amid strain on UK relations

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Cornwall councillor filmed saying Holocaust was ‘exaggerated’

Peter Lawrence also claimed that ‘communist’ Jewish influence was responsible for the collapse of the Weimar Republic and that Hitler ‘did not have beef with the Jews’

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June 3, 2025 09:51

Peter Lawrence (Image: CornwallResists/ Instagram)

Attorney General compares modern criticism of international law to ‘1930s Germany’

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp called for Lord Hermer to be sacked over the remarks

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May 30, 2025 12:20

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 6: Attorney General Richard Hermer leaves Number 10 following the first cabinet meeting since Labour formed a government under Sir Keir Starmer at Downing Street on July 6, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Alex McBride/Getty Images)

UK condemns Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements

Minister Hamish Falconer described the action as ‘a deliberate obstacle’ to the two-state solution

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May 29, 2025 17:01

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer. Credit: UK Parliament.

Hastings PSC criticised for ‘Wanted’ posters targeting Labour MP

Fellow MPs and local Jewish residents condemn “misogynistic bullying” of Helena Dollimore over Gaza

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May 16, 2025 11:29

The posters of Helena Dollimore appeared around the constituency earlier this month (Photo: Screenshot, Hastings and Rye PSC X)

Tougher immigration measures to stop Palestinians applying for asylum on Ukrainian visa scheme

The government revealed its immigration white paper on Monday

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May 13, 2025 09:24

12/05/2025. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a press conference on migration in 9 Downing Street. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

Reform council leader suggests circumcision leads to transgenderism in children

Sean Matthews was elected as the leader of Lincolnshire County Council earlier this month

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May 12, 2025 14:33

Sean Matthews (centre) with Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice (second on the right) and Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns (far left). (Image: Andrea Jenkyns/ X)

Faith minister decries ‘unfortunate’ exploitation of Israel-Palestine conflict in British politics

Lord Khan of Burnley said people had used Israel’s war in Gaza to stir up antisemitism

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May 9, 2025 12:56

Faith Minister Lord Wajid Khan (right), with the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, at his home in north London. (Image: Simon Walker / Deputy Prime Minister's Office).

Starmer honours Jewish veterans in VE Day column

The prime minister paid tribute to Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersch, who helped liberated Bergen-Belsen

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May 8, 2025 12:23

Mervyn Kersh, the Jewish veteran who helped to liberate Belsen

Teenage Peterborough councillor quits Labour citing ‘bullying’, ‘marginalisation’ and ‘an antisemitic incident’

Daisy Blakemore-Creedon was first elected aged just 18 but now claims to have been hounded out of her party after arguing in favour of putting CCTV in local minicabs

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May 8, 2025 11:56

Peterborough councillor Daisy Blakemore-Creedon who resigned from the Labour group on Peterborough council (Image: X)

Green MP’s Palestine protest at defence manufacturer branded a ‘gift’ to Putin

Former defence secretary Grant Shapps said the ‘dangerously naive’ protest would undermine Nato

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May 7, 2025 16:09

Green Party MP Sian Berry (Image: Getty).

Starmer shuts down pro-Gaza MP at PMQs: 'Most of what he says is simply not right'

The prime minister also said the situation in Gaza and the West Bank was ‘increasingly intolerable’

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May 7, 2025 14:38

Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions (Image: Parliament TV).

Senior Conservatives call on government to recognise Palestinian state

A number of Tory grandees, including Winston Churchill’s grandson, urged ministers to ‘give the Palestinian people some hope’

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May 7, 2025 12:16

Conservative Peer Lord Soames (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

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