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Help — I’m older than our new Prime Minister!

A top consultant and a head teacher I can just about stomach, but when I see the man in No10 was born after me......

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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 25: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a statement after taking office outside Number 10 in Downing Street on October 25, 2022 in London, England. Rishi Sunak will take office as the UK's 57th Prime Minister today after he was appointed as Conservative leader yesterday. He was the only candidate to garner 100-plus votes from Conservative MPs in the contest for the top job. He said his aim was to unite his party and the country. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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Grant Shapps moved to Business Secretary as Dominic Raab re-appointed Deputy PM

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DALLAS, TEXAS - AUGUST 06: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Hilton Anatole on August 06, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. CPAC began in 1974, and is a conference that brings together and hosts conservative organizations, activists, and world leaders in discussing current events and future political agendas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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Is the Republican party enabling America's antisemitic far-right?

The far-right threat within parts of the Republican party isn’t one to be dismissed easily

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October 4, 2022 16:00

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 12: Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Emancipation Park during the United the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After clashes with anti-facist protesters and police the rally was declared an unlawful gathering and people were forced out of Lee Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Liz Truss: I'm a huge Zionist and I'll never let Iran get nukes

The PM also claimed the government would 'stand up for Israel'

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October 3, 2022 12:45

Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss attends the second day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England, on October 3, 2022. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Interfaith groups urge inquiry into charity planning prayer service for Holocaust-praising cleric

The event will take place across the road from one of the East End's last active synagogues

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Egyptian-born cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi attends the sixth annual Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Conference organised by the Jerusalem International Foundation in the Qatari capital Doha on October 12, 2008. AFP PHOTO/KARIM JAAFAR (Photo credit should read KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Once banned from politics, Jews went on to help forge the Britain we know today

Six years after the first copies of the Jewish Chronicle rolled off the presses, Lionel de Rothschild was elected to the House of Commons.. Since then Jewish politicians have been instrumental in shaping Britain's political landscape

By Robert Philpot

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1865: Lionel Nathan Rothschild (1808 - 1879), banker and activist in the civil and political emancipation of Jews in Britain. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rupa Huq - who called chancellor ‘superficially black’ - was cleared of antisemitism in 2019

Labour MP was accused of racist bullying by an ex-staffer three years ago

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September 27, 2022 16:38

Rupa Huq - who called chancellor ‘superficially black’ - was cleared of antisemitism in 2019

Al Jazeera film claims Corbyn was brought down by secret coup

The documentary – the first in a series to run over Rosh Hashanah – suggests that ‘hostile’ elements including pro-Israel members worked to thwart Corbyn’s authority

By Georgia L Gilholy

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September 23, 2022 16:22

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 22: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn meets with asylum seeker brothers Somer Umeed and Areeb Umeed at Possilpark Parish Church on August 22, 2018 in Glasgow, Scotland. Jeremy Corbyn met with asylum seeker families in Glasgow threatened with eviction by Serco and called for such services to be delivered by public bodies. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Handbagged Theatre review: When the Queen met Mrs T

Fascinating dramatisation of what happened during the weekly meetings of our most divisive prime minister and our most unifying monarch

By John Nathan

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September 22, 2022 10:44

A scene from Handbagged by Moira Buffini @ Kiln Theatre. Directed by Indhu Rubasingham. (Opening 15-09-22) ©Tristram Kenton 09-22 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

Liz Truss and Keir Starmer unite to call for Arab countries to join Abraham Accords

On the second anniversary of the historic agreement, the two party leaders put aside their political differences

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Liz Truss and Keir Starmer unite to call for Arab countries to join Abraham Accords

Daniel Greenberg nominated as next Parliamentary Standards Commissioner

MPs will be asked to approve the appointment of Orthodox lawyer to investigate alleged breaches of their code of conduct

By Simon Rocker

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September 7, 2022 08:36

Daniel Greenberg nominated as next Parliamentary Standards Commissioner

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Help — I’m older than our new Prime Minister!

Grant Shapps moved to Business Secretary as Dominic Raab re-appointed Deputy PM

The Tories tipped to replace Liz Truss: What are their views on Jews and Israel?

Book review: Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good - Feeling blue: one man’s plan for the party's future

Top Truss aide suspended after MP claims he was 'not fit to work in No 10'

Can a Jewish moderate beat a Qanon superfan in one of America's most important elections?

Reform Movement urges caution over UK plans to move embassy to Jerusalem

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