Rishi Sunak has announced £3 million of extra funding to protect Jewish schools, synagogues and community buildings in the UK after a rise in antisemitic incidents. Britain is also sending warships and aircraft to support Israel following the Hamas attacks. Two Royal Navy support ships, multi-role Poseidon (P8) planes and around 100 marines are being […]
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The highly critical National Audit Office report into the government’s awarding of £18 billion in procurement deals has been overshadowed by infighting in the Labour party and the prime minister’s green plan for the UK. The parliamentary watchdog made a number of startling findings including a lack of transparency, failures to explain why certain suppliers […]
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Sir Keir Starmer has warned Jeremy Corbyn faces expulsion from the Labour party after the former leader was suspended yesterday for saying antisemitism in the party had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons”. Starmer spent this morning conducting media interviews trying to repair the damage that the major UK newspaper front pages are predicting has […]
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has sacked his shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey for sharing an article containing “an antisemitic conspiracy theory”. Starmer’s intervention follows a call from the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) who condemned Long-Bailey’s action and told her to apologise for the tweet and delete it. Long-Bailey’s tweet called actor […]
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