Keir Starmer

Wes Streeting MP speaking at Enough Is Enough - Demonstration against antisemitism.

Photo Credit: Marc Morris

May 4, 2022, 1:07 pm

Streeting most senior Labour figure to visit Israel under Starmer

EXCLUSIVE: The shadow health secretary will take part in a biomedical conference and learn more about Israeli tech during visit next week.

By Justin Cohen and Sabrina Miller

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Louise Ellman to the Labour Party conference 2021 (PA)

May 4, 2022, 9:50 am

EXCL: Louise Ellman launches new staunch defence of Keir Starmer ahead of local elections

Ellman claimed Starmer's support for the IHRA definition of antisemitism under former leader Jeremy Corbyn "was very important".

By Lee Harpin

Sir Keir Starmer filmed inside the home of a Jewish couple as they prepare for Passover, 2022 (Jewish News)

April 13, 2022, 4:43 pm

Keir Starmer: ‘It’s not for me to determine whether I have done enough’

EXCLUSIVE: The Labour leader visits the home of Jewish couple Sam Cohen and Natalie Grazin to deliver a moving Pesach message to the community

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

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

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

February 16, 2022, 1:36 pm

Starmer: ‘I don’t see how it’s possible for Corbyn to stand as Labour candidate’

Labour leader said his predecessor had the parliamentary whip withdrawn 'for reasons that everybody understands in relation to his response to the antisemitism report'

By Lee Harpin

February 9, 2022, 2:58 pm

Revealed: Boris Johnson’s Jimmy Savile slur sparked antisemitic hate at Keir Starmer

JN INVESTIGATION: Twitter users launch stream of abuse towards the Labour leader including claim he is "paid" by "Zionist masters"

By Lee Harpin

January 7, 2022, 12:35 pm

OPINION: Starmer’s contract with voters is only the start

A poll suggesting 70% of JLM members think Labour is now a 'safe space' for Jews is just getting to base camp. the start of a journey back to respectability, has a long way to go

By Mike Katz

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

December 27, 2021, 12:04 am

70 percent of JLM members polled say Labour now ‘a safe space’ for Jews

EXCLUSIVE: New poll indicates strong satisfaction with Keir Starmer's efforts to tackle Jew-hate with 9 in 10 members saying there's been positive changes to rules and culture

By Lee Harpin

Boris Johnson at CFI and Keir Starmer at LFI (Blake Ezra Photography)

December 1, 2021, 3:26 pm

Keir Starmer: I will ‘take no lessons’ from Boris Johnson on Labour antisemitism

Exclusive: Party leader hits back at the Prime Minister following his remarks to Conservative Friends of Israel about the continued 'infestation' of antisemitism in Labour

By Lee Harpin

Angela Rayner at the JLM Chanukah party alongside Mike Katz and Keir Starmer

November 30, 2021, 12:19 am

‘Nothing would’ve stopped me being here with Keir’, says Rayner at JLM Chanukah celebration

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner joined Keir Starmer at the JLM Chanukah party at Belsize Square Synagogue hours after there were claims of tensions over a reshuffle

By Lee Harpin

The Labour leader lights the second Chanukah candle. Pic: Nadine Batchelor-Hunt/Twitter

November 29, 2021, 11:37 pm

All light on the night as Starmer celebrates Chanukah with Jewish Labour Movement

Labour leader spoke on Monday night at Belsize Square shul alongside deputy Angela Rayner. He said the warmth he'd received from the Jewish community “means a huge amount”.

By Justin Cohen

November 24, 2021, 5:05 pm

Covid forced Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy to halt Israel trip

EXCLUSIVE: Shadow foreign secretary discloses new plans to visit the country with party leader next year and her ‘robust’ exchanges with Israel’s UK ambassador

By Lee Harpin

November 16, 2021, 2:16 pm

Keir Starmer: ‘Anti-Zionist antisemitism is antithesis of Labour tradition’

At Labour Friends of Israel lunch, the party leader condemns those who 'focus obsessively on the world’s sole Jewish state and hold it to standards no other country is subjected.'

By Lee Harpin

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks in the chamber of the House of Commons

October 20, 2021, 2:07 pm

Starmer flags Board concern on online extremism, saying ‘tough sanctions’ needed

Labour leader highlighted Telegram as 'the app of choice for terrorists' as he urged the government to toughen up its Online Harms bill

By Lee Harpin

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