Andy Burnham

New Foreign Office minister said Palestinians are subject to a ‘system of legal apartheid’

Uma Kumaran’s comments made just two weeks before her appointment by Andy Burnham have been labelled ‘inflammatory and false’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

MP Uma Kumaran speaks during a reception in Downing Street in 2025 (Image: Getty)

Kemi Badenoch

Andy Burnham’s Israel policy is about appeasing Labour backbenchers – not UK national interests, says Kemi Badenoch

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Justice Minister Sarah Sackman, MP for Finchley and Golders Green (Image: Sarah Sackman).

Andy Burnham

Which Jewish ministers are on Andy Burnham's frontbench?

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosts his first Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London. Picture date: Tuesday July 21, 2026. (Image: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire)

By Lorin Bell-Cross

With ‘unapologetic Zionist’ Rachel Reeves out, who now will hold the line for Israel?

3 min read

Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband appointed as foreign secretary by Andy Burnham

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Lord Hermer

Sir Keir Starmer’s attorney general Lord Hermer out of Andy Burnham’s new government

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Priti Patel

Dame Priti Patel accuses government of ‘lying’ to downplay scale of aid going into Gaza

By Lorin Bell-Cross

6 min read

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By Gary Cohen

Burnham compromised himself and his party by pandering to the antizionist crowd

Appeasing the haters won’t work and will only fuel the growing sectarian politics with which this country is already struggling. This is not leadership, and Britain will pay dearly for it

7 min read

July 17, 2026 17:57

Andy Burnham and Gary Lineker (Image X, Goalhanger)

By Stephen Daisley

Settlements are neither inherently illegal – nor the real obstacle to peace

Israel has granted its Arab minority full citizenship rights, and a future, no doubt democratic State of Palestine, could surely do the same for Jews living in the West Bank, right?

4 min read

July 17, 2026 12:18

The renovated Hurva (The Ruin) synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on March 14, 2010. The Jordanian army destroyed the 17th century synagogue during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war (Image: Getty Images)

Polanski criticises Burnham for not imposing full arms embargo on Israel

The Greens have hit out at the incoming prime minister over his ‘semi-skimmed’ position on Gaza

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

July 17, 2026 12:17

Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaks during the 'Together Against The Far Right' rally in London on March 28, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Lord Polak

Britain is no longer a friend of Israel – and under Andy Burnham, we may become a foe

The government has failed to learn that it will never appease the mob. It is still condemned by the vicious antisemites taking over our streets as being insufficiently hostile to the Jewish state

3 min read

July 16, 2026 17:34

Andy Burnham delivers a speech at The People's Museum on June 29, 2026 in Manchester (Image: Getty Images)

By Angela Epstein

Andy Burnham’s No 10 North plan is just as ill-conceived as his Israel views

If British Jewry is to trust the new prime minister, he will use the inevitable hours marooned on the dysfunctional Manchester-London train line to reflect on his deplorable ideas on the Middle East

3 min read

July 16, 2026 13:34

Andy Burnham at Millbank studios on July 2, 2026, ahead of an interview (Image: Getty Images)

Andy Burnham fails to push back against Gary Lineker’s description of Gaza conflict as ‘genocide’

Incoming prime minister interviewed by former footballer who left BBC shortly after sharing post about Zionism that included an image of a rat

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

July 15, 2026 18:00

Andy Burnham being interviewed by Gary Lineker (Image: Goalhanger/Youtube Screenshot).

By Dan Sacker

How David Miliband’s speech on leadership echoed the teachings of Rabbi Sacks

The key question is not ‘what does the incoming Prime Minister believe?’ It is ‘what still stands between him and the unchecked exercise of power, whoever he turns out to be?’

4 min read

July 15, 2026 10:57

David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, delivers The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Annual Memorial Lecture on July 9, 2026 (Image: Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

US warning underscores why anti-Israel trade measures would be an act of national self-harm

Undermining ties with Britain’s chief military ally and trading partner as well as the Jewish state – a technological and defence powerhouse – would carry enormous strategic costs

2 min read

July 15, 2026 09:58

Don’t boycott Israel, Trump administration warns as Andy Burnham considers settlement goods embargo

US State Department says anti-Israel trade measures ‘subvert American interests’ and ‘undermine peace’ in effective warning to incoming PM

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

July 15, 2026 06:00

A placard reading "Free Palestine, Boycott Israel" is held up among protesters carrying Palestinian flags at Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands (Image: Getty).

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Andy Burnham

New Foreign Office minister said Palestinians are subject to a ‘system of legal apartheid’

Andy Burnham’s Israel policy is about appeasing Labour backbenchers – not UK national interests, says Kemi Badenoch

Which Jewish ministers are on Andy Burnham's frontbench?

With ‘unapologetic Zionist’ Rachel Reeves out, who now will hold the line for Israel?

Ed Miliband appointed as foreign secretary by Andy Burnham

Sir Keir Starmer’s attorney general Lord Hermer out of Andy Burnham’s new government

Dame Priti Patel accuses government of ‘lying’ to downplay scale of aid going into Gaza

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