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Lorin Bell-Cross

Lorin Bell-Cross

Political Correspondent

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Corbyn and four other pro-Gaza MPs to form parliamentary alliance

‘Independent Alliance’ encourage more MPs to join their group

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Former Labour Party leader and newly elected MP Jeremy Corbyn addresses protesters during the "National March for Gaza", calling to "end the genocide" and "stop arming Israel", on July 6, 2024. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said that at least 38,098 people have been killed in nine months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. It added that 87,705 people had been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP) (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

UK to suspend 30 Israeli arms export licences

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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 02: Kemi Badenoch launches her Conservative Party Leadership campaign on September 02, 2024 in London, England. Badenoch launched her campaign under the name Renewal2030, outlining what the Conservative party must stand for in 2030. The former Business Secretary and Equalities Minister under Rishi Sunak, has served as the MP for North West Essex (formerly Saffron Walden) since 2017. She joined the Conservative Party in 2005 at the age of 25. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Kemi Badenoch attacks ‘sectarian Islamist politics’ in leadership campaign launch

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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - AUGUST 29: Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Enmarket Arena August 29, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. Harris has campaigned in southeast Georgia for the past two days. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Kamala Harris calls Hamas ‘evil’ and speaks to parents of murdered Hersh Goldberg-Polin

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Man jailed for three years for threatening to kill Ed Miliband

Judge described the incident as an attack on parliamentary democracy

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August 30, 2024 14:04

Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero giving a speech in Widnes in July (Photo: Getty Images)

Momentum welcomes Lammy’s moves on Unrwa funding and ICC, calls for arms embargo on Israel

But Labour source told the JC that the anti-Israel motion is unlikely to be debated

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August 30, 2024 11:17

Delegates wave Palestinian flags during a debate on Palestine at Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, 2018 (Photo: Getty Images)

Jewish groups welcome proposed hate crime measures despite concerns over free speech

Free speech campaigners question how effective proposals will be at tackling antisemitism

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August 30, 2024 11:15

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper arriving to attend a Cabinet meeting last month (photo: Getty Images)

Esther McVey refuses to apologise for ‘minimising the horrors of the Holocaust’

Former ‘common sense minister’ told the JC: ‘no equivalence was being suggested’ between Nazis and proposed smoking ban

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August 30, 2024 11:06

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 14: Minister without Portfolio, Esther McVey, arrives at Downing Street ahead of the Cabinet Meeting on November 14, 2023 in London, England. Rishi Sunak will meet his new ministers today after a dramatic cabinet re-shuffle yesterday which saw former Prime Minister David Cameron return to the cabinet for the first time in more than seven years after being made the new Foreign Secretary following Suella Braverman's sacking. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

New Hendon MP standing for key Commons committee chair

David Pinto-Duschinsky says he has the experience to deliver proper scrutiny

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August 29, 2024 16:57

David Pinto Duschinsky at the count in Hendon (Liron Woodcock-Velleman/X)

Starmer and German Chancellor call for Middle East de-escalation

New UK government looking to strengthen ties with France and Germany

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August 28, 2024 13:11

BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 28: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shakes hands with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) after a joint press conference at the Chancellery on August 28, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. This is Starmer's first official visit to Germany since he became prime minister. (Photo by Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Bedouin hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi rescued by IDF troops from Gaza tunnel

The 52-year-old was abducted from Kibbutz Magen on October 7

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August 27, 2024 12:39

Freed hostage Farhan Alkadi reunited with his brother at the Soroka hospital in Beersheva

The SNP’s posturing on Israel is pure Thick of It

The party’s cackhanded attempts to send a coherent signal about Gaza has made it a laughing stock

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August 22, 2024 14:04

The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh (Photo: Getty)

New Labour MPs reveal how trips to Israel made the ‘horror’ of war hit home

Parliamentarians open up about visits organised by Labour Friends of Israel

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August 22, 2024 10:29

Former LFI Chair Steve McCabe (wearing light blue shirt) and Matthew Patrick MP (dark blue shirt) in the ruins of a building in Kibbutz Be'eri during a visit to Israel in March this year. Credit: Labour Friends of Israel

Palestine Action vandals handed five years of jail time

Five activists caused over £1 million worth of damage to arms factory

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August 21, 2024 11:35

Activists from Palestine Action Scotland on the roof of defence company Thales in Glasgow. Palestine Action Scotland/X.

He was always a maverick! High flyer Shapps takes off after politics

The former defence secretary talks about his love of aviation and how the Conservative Party can lift off again

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August 21, 2024 09:03

Former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps in the cockpit of a Typhoon jet. Credit: Ministry of Defence.

Starmer express condolences to Netanyahu after body of British-Israeli hostage recovered by IDF

PM has been under pressure to announce an arms embargo on Israel

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August 20, 2024 16:50

Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday amid rising tensions in the MIddle East. (Photo by Henry Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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