641 out of 643 MPs sign up to IHRA definition of antisemitism

A total of 641 of the 643 MPs who sit in the Commons have personally signed up to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism in what has been called "largest collective parliamentary support for any non-parliamentary document in modern times".

The Antisemitism Policy Trust invited candidates from all parties to sign up to the definition during the General Election campaign last year, and around 700 did so.

After around 230 of them were elected, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Against Antisemitism then set out to sign up more MPs to the defintion.

"The result was 637 parliamentarians personally signed up to the definition in what is believed to be the largest collective parliamentary support for any non-parliamentary document in modern times," the Antisemitism Policy Trust, which provides the secretariat for the APPG, said.