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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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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

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)

Reform council leader suggests circumcision leads to transgenderism in children

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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).

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

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Mervyn Kersh, the Jewish veteran who helped to liberate Belsen

Starmer honours Jewish veterans in VE Day column

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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)

Green leadership candidate denies that Labour was ‘rife with antisemitism’ under Corbyn

Zack Polanski had previously criticised the former Opposition Leader but said he now has ‘a new appreciation of what [he] was dealing with’ following alleged ‘attacks’ from the JC

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May 6, 2025 18:28

Zack Polanski, deputy leader of the Green Party (Image: Getty)

Labour MPs urge government to proscribe IRGC following terror raid

The party had pledged to implement the measure while in opposition but has declined to do so since winning the last election

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May 6, 2025 15:30

Luke Akehurst, Labour MP for North Durham Luke Akehurst (Image: Parliament TV)

UK government labelled ‘Hamas’ useful idiots’ over £101m PA funding package

Government sources insist that there is ‘rigorous oversight’ of all aid to the Palestinians

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May 4, 2025 10:32

David Lammy (left) with Palestinian PM Mohamed Mustafa (Image: UK Government).

Pro-Gaza independents win council seats as Reform breaks through all over the UK

An 18-year-old candidate in favour of gender segregation was elected to Lancashire County Council

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May 2, 2025 17:05

Nigel Farage (L) and Sarah Pochin of the Reform Party celebrate her victory in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Outrage as police allow banned Gaza protest to return to Jewish area of north London

The ‘intimidating’ anti-Israel demonstration in Swiss Cottage is due to return this afternoon as a police order expires

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May 2, 2025 11:45

A poster at one of the previous protests states: "You're not anti-racist if you're not anti-Zionist"

Exclusive: Green Party broadcast featured councillor who denied Hamas atrocities

Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, said the party should have used the occasion to apologise for Mohamed Makawi’s comments

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May 1, 2025 17:34

Cllr Makawi (right) alongside Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer (Image: YouTube/Green Party of England and Wales)

Downing Street claims no change in position on recognising Palestinian State following Lammy comments

The foreign secretary told a Lords committee yesterday: ‘We will prefer recognition as a part of a process to two states’

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May 1, 2025 14:25

Ireland is most anti-Israel country in Europe with echoes of 1930s Germany, former justice minister claims

Alan Shatter voices his ‘deeply concern’ for the country’s small Jewish community

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May 1, 2025 12:39

Former Irish justice minister Alan Shatter (Image: Getty)

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

Reform council leader suggests circumcision leads to transgenderism in children

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

Starmer honours Jewish veterans in VE Day column

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