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General Election 2024

The JC’s guide to election night

Key timings for readers thinking of staying up overnight

By Lorin Bell-Cross

9 min read

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

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 14: Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, speaks to attendees of the Jewish Labour Movement one day conference on January 14, 2024 in London, England. Established in 1903, the Jewish Labour Movement is a membership organisation of Labour supporting members of the Jewish Community and formal affiliate of the Labour Party in the UK since 1920. The movement campaigns within the party and the wider community to support Labour values within the UK, Israel and Internationally. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

General Election 2024

Labour can be trusted again

3 min read

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

Labour Friends of Israel

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

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Gordon Brown at the JLM conference

General Election 2024

Former PM backs Labour’s Sackman in Golders Green

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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

General Election 2024

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

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Harold Wilson (Photo by Michael Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Michael Rubin

By Michael Rubin

Don’t fear antisemitism creeping back to Labour

3 min read

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)

Labour to pave way for blacklisting Iranian state terror militia

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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Jeremy Corbyn to lose seat

Labour set to defeat former leader in Islington North

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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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)

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

Former Labour leader is contesting Islington North as an independent

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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June 24, 2024 12:01

Jeremy Corbyn

I have relatives in Israel who are affected by the war, says Starmer

Labour leader also cast doubt on his children’s Jewish status

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

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June 23, 2024 11:07

Sir Keir Starmer with his wife Victoria

Poll: Jews still favour Tories despite huge swing to Labour

Support for Labour among Jews has risen by 50 points since 2019 – but Sunak more trusted than Starmer, exclusive JC survey reveals

4 min read

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June 19, 2024 12:28

Poll: Jews still favour Tories despite huge swing to Labour

Margaret Hodge: ‘I had my first death threat in 1976 – I’ve developed a hard edge’

Labour veteran Dame Margaret reflects on 30 years in Parliament battling racism, tax dodgers and death threats

By Jane Prinsley

9 min read

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June 14, 2024 14:40

Over the course of her career Dame Margaret Hodge has famously battled the BNP and confronted Jeremy Corbyn for presiding over an antisemitic Labour Party (Photo: Getty)

Tanya Gold

Starmer couldn’t have done more, so I’ll vote for him on July 4

Jews are safer when we stick to the centre

3 min read

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June 11, 2024 15:02

Britain's Labour Party launch their election campaign (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

JLC reaffirms opposition to recognition of Palestinian state as Labour prepares to do so in manifesto pledge

Starmer’s position builds upon that of Lord Cameron, who announced in January he would consider the move

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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June 7, 2024 10:49

Sir Keir Starmer will recognise Palestinian statehood as part of a peace process in his election manifesto (Photo: Getty)

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Labour’s plan to recognise Palestine is gesture politics of the worst kind

It makes a negotiated settlement less likely

2 min read

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June 7, 2024 10:03

Sir Keir Starmer (Photo by LEON NEAL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Tories demand answers over Diane Abbott antisemitism probe

Conservative Chair Richard Holden has written to Sir Keir Starmer over investigation

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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May 29, 2024 14:48

Keir Starmer has insisted 'no decision has been taken to bar Diane Abbott' from standing as a Labour candidate (Photo: Getty)

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