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Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer accidentally calls for release of ‘sausages’ in Labour conference speech

The Prime Minister hit back at a heckler who shouted about Gaza, saying he had a ‘pass for 2019 conference’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 24: Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party conference at ACC Liverpool on September 24, 2024 in Liverpool, England. This is Labour's first conference since voters returned them as the governing party of The UK and Northern Ireland in the July election. The result ended 14 years of Conservative rule with a landslide majority of 172 seats. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Solicitor General and Finchley and Golders Green MP Sarah Sackman.

Jewish Labour Movement

‘We have a Labour government because of you’; jubilant Jewish Labour rally celebrates election success

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Foreign Secretary David Lammy (left) with Israeli opposition party leader Yair Golan (right). Credit: Yair Golan

Israeli opposition leader to address Labour Friends of Israel rally tomorrow

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 23: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves delivers her keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference 2024 at ACC Liverpool on September 23, 2024 in Liverpool, England. This is Labour's first conference since they were returned as the governing party of The UK and Northern Ireland by voters in the July election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. They won with a landslide majority of 172 seats, and 412 in total. (Footage by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Rachel Reeves’ speech disrupted by pro-Palestine protesters

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 22: David Lammy, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs delivers his speech on day one of the Labour Party conference on September 22, 2024 in Liverpool, England. This is Labour's first conference since they were returned as the governing party of The UK and Northern Ireland by voters in the July election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. They won with a landslide majority of 172 seats, and 412 in total. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Lammy defends restoring funding to Unrwa in Labour conference speech

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

Peter Mason

Jewish Labour Movement

Former JLM leader elected to Labour Party governing body

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

Jon Pearce (second on the right) on a delegation in Israel meeting President Isaac Herzog. Credit: Labour Friends of Israel

Labour Friends of Israel

Labour Friends of Israel reveal new parliamentary chair

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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Melanie Phillips

By Melanie Phillips

What do dumbed-down diplomats know about Israel?

The ‘camel corps’ has been superseded by a new breed of ‘progressive’ leftists who fetishise transnational courts, where international law is used as a weapon of Israel’s destruction

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September 11, 2024 10:50

Pro-Israel groups as protest outside the Foreign Office on September 3, 2024, calling for the British government to stop providing funds funnelled to Hamas (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Labour’s arms ban: bad timing and bad politics

The decision has managed to unite both pro and anti-Israel campaigners in anger

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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September 4, 2024 09:24

Anti-Israel protesters at Wimbledon. Credit: Campaign Against Arms Trade, Twitter/X

Momentum welcomes Lammy’s moves on Unrwa funding and ICC, calls for arms embargo on Israel

But Labour source told the JC that the anti-Israel motion is unlikely to be debated

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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August 30, 2024 11:17

Delegates wave Palestinian flags during a debate on Palestine at Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, 2018 (Photo: Getty Images)

New Hendon MP standing for key Commons committee chair

David Pinto-Duschinsky says he has the experience to deliver proper scrutiny

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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August 29, 2024 16:57

David Pinto Duschinsky at the count in Hendon (Liron Woodcock-Velleman/X)

New Labour MPs reveal how trips to Israel made the ‘horror’ of war hit home

Parliamentarians open up about visits organised by Labour Friends of Israel

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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August 22, 2024 10:29

Former LFI Chair Steve McCabe (wearing light blue shirt) and Matthew Patrick MP (dark 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

He was always a maverick! High flyer Shapps takes off after politics

The former defence secretary talks about his love of aviation and how the Conservative Party can lift off again

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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August 21, 2024 09:03

Former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps in the cockpit of a Typhoon jet. Credit: Ministry of Defence.

Controversial ex-Columbia academic ‘may be kept away from Israel-related work at Foreign Office’

The government should defend her appointment, insiders say

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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August 16, 2024 16:48

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik visits Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on 1 May, 2024 amid pro-Palestine protests on campus. Three Columbia deans resigned following the release of 'antisemitic' text messages shared during a panel addressing campus antisemitism. (Photo by Indy Scholtens/Getty Images)

Alex Hearn

Being ‘better than Corbyn’ is a low bar – and Labour hasn’t met it over Clive Lewis

The MP’s social media posts effectively hold Jews thousands of miles away responsible for the actions of the British far right

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August 15, 2024 07:09

Clive Lewis MP (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Labour MP criticised for linking Israel’s Gaza war to far-right violence

Labour Against Antisemitism called for Clive Lewis’s ‘immediate suspension’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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August 12, 2024 15:57

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 10: Clive Lewis talks onstage at the Black Cultural Archives on January 10, 2020 in London, England. Labour leadership candidate Clive Lewis, who is the MP for Norwich South, laid out his plans for the Labour Party in a bid to secure the 22 nominations needed to remain in the race to replace the party's current leader Jeremy Corbyn. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

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