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Lorin Bell-Cross

Lorin Bell-Cross

Political Correspondent

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General Election 2024

The JC General Election Liveblog 2024: The moment of truth for Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak

Follow our live blog for the Jewish angle on the 2024 General Election – blow by blow, all night

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The JC General Election Liveblog 2024: The moment of truth for Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak

TOPSHOT - Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech on stage during the launching of Labour Party election manifesto, in Manchester, on June 13, 2024 in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

What to expect from Labour in government

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A man with a ballot box (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

The JC’s guide to election night

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Steve McCabe (wearing light 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

Steve McCabe: Labour’s reaction to October 7 showed it was a changed party

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‘Zionist child killer’ daubed on Tory candidate’s office

Robert Largan told the JC he was worried this abuse was becoming “routine”

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July 2, 2024 10:57

Robert Largan's constituency office. Credit: Robert Largan Twitter/X

I refused to cave to the Gaza mob, says elderly rabbi in Bury

Rabbi Saunders tells JC he is ‘proud’ that despite the intimidation, he refused to condemn Israel

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July 2, 2024 09:23

Rabbi Arnold Saunders outside Bilal Mosque in Prestwich. Credit: North West Friends of Israel, X/Twitter

Elderly rabbi hounded out by Gaza mob in Bury

Rabbi Arnold Saunders was campaigning at a mosque as the Conservative hopeful for Bury South

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July 1, 2024 11:36

Rabbi Arnold Saunders outside Bilal Mosque in Prestwich. Credit: North West Friends of Israel, X/Twitter

Lib Dems back candidate who called for Israel boycott

Former MP Tessa Munt will remain a candidate for a target seat

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June 28, 2024 16:21

Lib Dem candidate Tessa Munt

Former PM backs Labour’s Sackman in Golders Green

Gordon Brown is the second ex-prime ministers to intervene in the race to succeed Mike Freer

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June 27, 2024 12:43

Gordon Brown at the JLM conference

How do Hendon’s Labour and Tory MP hopefuls compare?

The JC spoke to the Conservative and Labour candidates for the north London marginal seat

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June 27, 2024 11:30

How do Hendon’s Labour and Tory MP hopefuls compare?

Labour to pave way for blacklisting Iranian state terror militia

Details emerge on how Labour would proscribe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps

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June 26, 2024 13:27

Iranians attend the funeral of seven Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike on the country's consular annex in Damascus (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Jeremy Corbyn to lose seat

Labour set to defeat former leader in Islington North

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June 26, 2024 10:17

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 8: Jeremy Corbyn MP arrives at a World Transformed Event to discuss The Kids Aren't Alright: Reimagining Education on October 8, 2023 in Liverpool, England. The event provides a platform for attendees to unite in purpose, strategize, and amplify their collective voices in shaping a progressive and equitable future, and runs at the same time as this year's Labour Party conference. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Suella Braverman: antisemitism in Britain has made me ‘ashamed to be British’

The former cabinet minister was criticised for calling pro-Palestine rallies ‘hate marches’

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June 26, 2024 09:19

Suella Braverman speaks in Manchester (Photo:Mike Poloway)

Boris Johnson warns Golders Green voters of ‘Starmergeddon’

Former PM featured in video backing local Tory candidate

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June 25, 2024 17:01

Boris Johnson attends the march against antisemitism in London, November 26, 2023

Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan taken to task at first-ever ‘antisemitism’ hustings

Event, organised by Campaign Against Antisemitism, featured speakers from the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK

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June 25, 2024 13:48

Campaign Against Antisemitism hustings on 24.06.24. Pictured: Campaign Against Antisemitism Chief Executive Gideon Falter (Left), Conservative Tom Tugendhat (Centre), Labour's Alex Norris (Right)

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh: I back ‘kind’ Jeremy Corbyn

Former Labour leader is contesting Islington North as an independent

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June 24, 2024 12:01

Jeremy Corbyn

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