Pearce confirmed as the UK’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues
Role includes promoting Holocaust education and bringing justice and assistance to Holocaust victims and their families
Labour’s Jon Pearce MP has been confirmed as the UK’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues.
The former parliamentary chair of Labour Friends of Israel organisation, he succeeds Tory ex-minister Lord Pickles, stood down from the role in April last year.
The Foreign Office confirmed Pearce would follow Pickles ten year stint in the role, adding it” includes promoting Holocaust education, remembrance and research in the UK and internationally, and bringing justice and assistance to Holocaust victims and their families.”
One of Pearce’s first meetings was with Board of Deputies President Phil Rosenberg to discuss how to preserve the memory of the Shoah and how to fight inversion.
The MP, elected to represent High Peaks in the 2024 general election, has since been made Keir Starmer’s parliamentary private secretary (PPS).
He says he is “honoured” to also take up the envoy role.
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