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Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi addressing the Labour Party annual conference

Photo credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

May 18, 2022, 2:48 pm

JVL co-founder Wimborne-Idrissi targets election onto Labour’s ruling body

JVL's Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Young Labour's Jes Barnard, and George McManus, are amongst the hard-left 'slate' of candidates for internal Labour elections this summer

By Lee Harpin

Sir Keir Starmer (left) alongside former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre)

April 25, 2022, 1:17 pm

Starmer: ‘Very difficult’ to see how Corbyn can regain Labour whip

Party leader says his predecessor's comments criticising Nato means it's unlikely will represent Labour at another general election.

By Jenni Frazer

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay who have been elected as the co-leaders of the Green Party at St Pancras Meeting Rooms, London. Picture date: Friday October 1, 2021. (Jewish News)

April 20, 2022, 5:14 pm

Is Green becoming the new red? Labour’s disaffected hard-left jumps ship

Concerns over candidates with previous connections to Jeremy Corbyn ahead of next month's local elections.

By Lee Harpin

Jeremy Corbyn on Times Radio 20/04/22 (Twitter screenshot)

April 20, 2022, 3:56 pm

Corbyn: Labour’s antisemitism problem was ‘actually quite small’

Former Labour leader tells Times Radio he would like 'all military alliances disband' after being quizzed about NATO

By Lee Harpin

April 13, 2022, 12:59 pm

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Apologies were necessary over my role in Corbyn’s team, but judge me by my actions now’

Sir Keir Starmer tells Jewish News’ political editor Lee Harpin his party has undergone a seismic shift under his watch – and shares his seder secrets.

By Lee Harpin

File photo dated 10/05/21 of Laura Murray, a former aide to Jeremy Corbyn, who will receive "substantial damages" from the publisher of the Daily Telegraph and a former Labour MP after she was falsely described as an "anti-Jewish racist". Issue date: Thursday April 7, 2022.

April 7, 2022, 2:43 pm

Ex-Corbyn aide to get ‘substantial damages’ over false antisemitism

Former Corbyn aide Laura Murray will receive “substantial damages” from the publisher of the Daily Telegraph and a former Labour MP.

By Jewish News Reporer

March 29, 2022, 3:43 pm

Wes Streeting: ‘Leadership plans? Don’t underestimate my loyalty to Keir’

Shadow health secretary on his party's prospects at the upcoming local elections, the likelihood of his leader becoming the next prime minister and coping with cancer.

By Lee Harpin

March 3, 2022, 8:24 am

Corbyn’s Stop The War speech interrupted by cries of ‘shame on you!’

Protestor with Ukrainian flag thrown out as the former Labour leader defies demands from Keir Starmer not to speak at the event

By Lee Harpin

January 20, 2022, 1:23 pm

New figures confirm huge increase in Labour expulsions under Starmer

Party figures confirm 274 expulsions, 10 for criminal offences, since last March - with 81 booted out for support of banned groups downplaying antisemitism

By Lee Harpin

December 13, 2021, 10:54 am

Rosen ‘humbled’ after being elected new UJS president

Cambridge University student - who confronted Jeremy Corbyn over his failure on antisemitism - becomes first ever openly LGBT+ president of UJS

December 7, 2021, 10:01 am

Ben Elton: ‘Even non-racists can be a bit antisemitic’

INTERVIEW: The iconic comedian discusses his upcoming London shows, David Baddiel's take on antisemitism and his family's escape from Nazi persecution.

By Lee Harpin

Dame Margaret Hodge, Parliamentary Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, during a press conference by the JLM at the offices of Mishcon de Reya in London, following the publication of damming anti-Semitism report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

December 3, 2021, 9:22 am

Margaret Hodge to step down at next election after 27 years as an MP

Recalling her political career, the veteran Jewish politician says the years under Jeremy Corbyn were ‘the most difficult I've lived through’

By Lee Harpin

Rachel Riley arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, for a libel case between the television presenter and a former senior aide to ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The 35 year old who appears in the Channel 4 show Countdown, says she was libelled in a tweet posted by Laura Murray. Picture date: Monday May 10, 2021. PA Photo See PA story COURTS Riley. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

October 31, 2021, 12:17 pm

Hard-left activists call for Big Issue boycott over Rachel Riley interview

Rachel Riley gave an interview to the latest edition of The Big Issue in which she praised Sir Keir Starmer's attempts to tackle antisemitism

By Lee Harpin

October 15, 2021, 11:28 am

Police warn hard-left activist over ‘Zionist c***’ slur at councillor

EXCLUSIVE: Merseyside police forced to intervene in a confrontation after Labour councillor Nick Small was allegedly threatened with obscene antisemitic language by activist.

By Lee Harpin

Labour leader SirKeir Starmer welcomes Louise Ellman to the Labour Party conference in Brighton.

September 27, 2021, 2:55 pm

The picture we’ve been waiting for… Welcome home, Louise!

Sir Keir Starmer warmly embraces Dame Louise Ellman after the former Labour MP announced she'll return to the party, two years after quitting due to antisemitism under Corbyn.

By Lee Harpin at the Labour Party Conference

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