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Baroness Hodge: I proudly wear my star of David because I’m not going to hide my identity

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Warning for Labour MP who called for UK military action against Israel was not enough, says Jewish group

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Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against Israel

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Farage hints at reversing Labour’s Israel sanctions

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Left-wing Labour factions push conference motion demanding Gaza ‘genocide’ recognition and Israel arms embargo

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Labour MPs (from CL) Kim Johnson, Neil Duncan-Jordan and Steve Witherden on Westminster Bridge during a pro-Palestine protest on June 4, 2025 (Getty Images)

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Exclusive: Burnham gave government job to MP who accused Israel of ‘deliberately exterminating’ Gazans

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Tory chair asks Labour to investigate new solicitor general’s 2010 Hamas meetings

Kevin Hollinrake asks Bridget Phillipson if Andy Slaughter’s trips to Gaza and the West Bank live up to Labour’s ministerial standards

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Jewish leaders demand answers from Andy Burnham after Diane Abbott re-admitted to Labour

‘The prime minister must explain how returning the whip is consistent with his zero tolerance to antisemitism,’ says Jewish Leadership Council

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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’

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

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He enabled Corbyn, gave Assad butchery the green light – and now catastrophic Ed Miliband is our foreign secretary

We all know what is next: Burnham can now launch further sanctions against Israel with the support of a Jewish minister

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Ed Miliband arrives at Downing Street for Keir Starmer's final cabinet meeting on July 15, 2026 (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Ed Miliband appointed as foreign secretary by Andy Burnham

‘I will carry my parents' faith in that spirit of Britain to my role representing our country’, the former Labour leader said

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New Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband leaving 10 Downing Street on Monday (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

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

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Attorney General Lord Hermer (Image: Getty)

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

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

Starmer highlights fight against antisemitism at final PMQs outing

The prime minister said his party was ‘institutionally antisemitic’ before he took decisive action as leader

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Sir Keir Starmer during his final PMQs as prime minister on July 15, 2026 (Parliament TV).

Yvette Cooper: Burnham right to apologise for Labour’s Gaza stance

The foreign secretary also spoke about tying sanctions to settlement expansion

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Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, being questioned by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (Image: Parliament TV).

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Baroness Hodge: I proudly wear my star of David because I’m not going to hide my identity

A Yom Kippur unlike any in living memory

Warning for Labour MP who called for UK military action against Israel was not enough, says Jewish group

Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against Israel

Farage hints at reversing Labour’s Israel sanctions

Left-wing Labour factions push conference motion demanding Gaza ‘genocide’ recognition and Israel arms embargo

Exclusive: Burnham gave government job to MP who accused Israel of ‘deliberately exterminating’ Gazans

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