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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas and Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO in Tallinn, Estonia. Picture date: Tuesday March 1, 2022.

June 6, 2022, 9:45 pm

Boris Johnson wins confidence vote, but 40% of his own MPs fail to back him

In day of high-drama in Westminster, 211 Tory MPs back the Prime Minister, while 148 vote to confirm they have no confidence in him remaining as leader

By Lee Harpin

May 23, 2022, 2:52 pm

Deputy insists young people should visit Auschwitz rather than Westminster memorial

Robert Festenstein is criticised by Board of Deputies President after questioning whether Memorial in Westminster 'should be there at all'

By Lee Harpin

Tom Tugendhat, MP for Tonbridge, Edenbridge and Malling, speaking at the Ulster Unionist Party conference in Belfast, Saturday October 9, 2021.

May 18, 2022, 1:00 pm

Tugendhat: ‘We need the right team to keep power and retain Jewish support’

INTERVIEW: Foreign affairs committee chair Tom Tugendhat, tipped by some as the next Tory leader, tells Lee Harpin the party needs to start delivering for all UK communities

By Lee Harpin

Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London ahead of a hearing regarding the UK Holocaust Memorial. Issue date: Tuesday February 22, 2022. (Jewish News)

April 12, 2022, 2:53 pm

OPINION: This is a setback but Holocaust memorial will be relevant to everyone

Last week, the High Court agreed with campaigners that the proposed UK Holocaust memorial should not go ahead in Victoria Tower Gardens.

By Olivia Marks-Woldman

Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London ahead of a hearing regarding the UK Holocaust Memorial. The London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust is opposed to a new UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in Victoria Tower Gardens, a small triangular Grade II-listed park next to Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. Issue date: Tuesday February 22, 2022.

February 22, 2022, 11:28 am

Demonstration held outside High Court hearing for Westminster Shoah memorial

Campaigners held placards as the hearing got underway, saying the memorial was the "right idea in the wrong place" and that "not all Holocaust survivors want this plan"

By Jewish News Reporter

Speaker addresses MPs and Peers at HMD ceremony in Westminster

January 27, 2022, 11:30 pm

Commons Speaker Hoyle calls for ‘unity’ at Westminster HMD event

Sir Lindsay Hoyle told MPs and peers :“The Holocaust threatened the very fabric of civilisation - and genocide must be still resisted every day."

By Lee Harpin in Westminster

January 27, 2022, 10:53 pm

Jenrick tells MPs of ‘Jewish Zionist wife’ death threat letter

Former Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick revealed letter was sent to his house as he opened the Holocaust Memorial Day debate in Westminster

By Lee Harpin

Former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick (right), holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster, London, celebrating the go-ahead being given to a Holocaust memorial. Picture date: Thursday July 29, 2021.

August 3, 2021, 5:03 pm

OPINION: Right place for national memorial, whatever certain type of person says

The chair of the Holocaust Memorial Commission of the UK responds to the founder of a group against the memorial who called it a 'vanity project' backed by 'a certain type of Jew'

By Sir Mick Davis

Ed Balls and Lord Eric Pickles after the Holocaust Memorial decision was announced by Chris Pincher MP.

July 29, 2021, 10:23 am

Westminster Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre is approved

Housing Minister Christopher Pincher gives the project the green light

By Lee Harpin

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show.

June 9, 2021, 2:45 pm

Labour ‘happy’ to look at cases where MPs may have stoked tensions towards Jews

Spokesperson for Sir Keir Starmer says the party can investigate specific examples where incidents may have arisen as the result of speeches and comments made during Gaza war

By Lee Harpin

Proposed design of Westminster Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens

July 13, 2020, 3:47 pm

‘Government remains committed to building Holocaust memorial near parliament’

Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government stresses support for £100m learning centre and monument in Victoria Tower Gardens

By Jewish News Reporter

Blogger Alison Chabloz arriving at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, January 2018.

Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

February 12, 2019, 5:10 pm

Chabloz’s barrister: Nazis ‘didn’t deliberately murder’ Anne Frank

Antisemitic activist and Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz is fighting conviction for grossly offensive songs, claiming material is just 'silly songs'.

By Jewish News Reporter

Front View of the chosen design for the Holocaust memorial

October 24, 2017, 1:00 pm

Revealed: Winning design for Westminster Holocaust memorial

British architect Sir David Adjaye and Israeli designer Ron Arad are unanimously selected to take on an ambitious project to build by parliament

By Jenni Frazer

September 14, 2017, 10:07 am

Revealed: Our elderly – alone and forgotten

Leading charity Jewish Care calls on community to tackle volunteer shortage as it warns of shocking isolation levels

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Louise Ellman (left), Wes Streeting (centre) and John Mann (second from right) will be at the JLM conference

June 28, 2017, 4:52 pm

John Mann re-elected chair of group against anti-Semitism

Labour MP vows to 'work across party lines' to combat hatred against Jews

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