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Green council leader contributed to defeated Labour mayoral candidate’s controversial manifesto

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announces his resignation outside Number 10 Downing Street on June 22, 2026 (Getty Images)

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LFI welcomes creation of Israel-Palestinian peace fund

The fund aims to foster dialogue, support civil partnerships and future peace efforts

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Streeting experienced ‘early mid-life crisis’ over Palestine recognition, Mandelson claimed

The former health secretary was branded ‘hysterical’ by the now-disgraced peer in newly published messages to cabinet minister Pat McFadden

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Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting delivers a speech during the Labour Conference at ACC Liverpool on September 30, 2025 (Getty Images)

Tributes to ‘extraordinary’ Marion Miliband as she dies aged 91

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Marion Kozak Miliband during a visit to Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, in 1996 (Photo: Yad Vashem)

Sadiq Khan is failing us on hate marches, say Jewish community leaders

Heads of communal organisations and senior politicians blast London Mayor after years of anti-Israel demonstrations

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Andy Burnham won’t support Corbyn return to Labour, sources claim

John McDonnell called for the former leader to be allowed back to the party

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is seeking to return to parliament (Photo: Getty)

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What is the record of Labour’s leadership contenders on the Jewish community and Israel?

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting on a hospital visit with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Getty Images)

Exclusive: I won’t resign to give Andy Burnham a shot at leadership, says Jewish Labour MP

Jewish members of the parliamentary Labour Party are split on Sir Keir Starmer’s future, despite Charlotte Nichols’ comments

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Under any of Starmer’s mooted successors, Britain’s Israel policy can only go from bad to worse

The party’s attitude has shifted from previous governments treating the Jewish state as a key ally to viewing it as a reprobate state that must be brought to heel

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Prime Minister and Labour Leader Keir Starmer giving a speech in a bid to secure his premiership on May 11, 2026 (Image: Getty)

Labour MPs call for Nakba Day rally ban

Mark Sewards said the event demonstrated an ‘obsessive focus on the world’s only Jewish state’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Several anti-Israel demonstrators held placards drawing comparisons between the Gaza war and the Holocaust at last year's Nakba march (Credit: X/@habibi_uk)

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Labour Party

Burnham has upped the anti-Israel rhetoric – but will his government act differently from Starmer’s?

Burnham allies distance likely next PM from report of Palantir NHS contract cancellation

Exclusive: Dame Priti Patel slams Green councillor who used a ‘racist’ slur against her

Israel calls for Unrwa to be ‘dismantled’ after UK announces £23 million funding increase

Green council leader contributed to defeated Labour mayoral candidate’s controversial manifesto

Keir deserves the credit for stamping out Labour antisemitism

Starmer hails ‘ripping out poison of antisemitism’ from Labour in resignation speech

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