LFI chair Steve McCabe’s speech to LFI’s 2023 Annual Lunch

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Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends.   

 

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch.   

 

And a warm welcome to our friends from the Abraham Accords countries.  

 

LFI’s work is

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s speech to LFI’s 2023 Annual Lunch

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Thank yous 

 

Thank you,  

 

Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends… some of you old friends.  

 

Sir David Garrard for the wonderful introduction. 

Isaac Kaye. 

Adrian Cohen. 

Steve McCabe for your advice and support. 

 

Tom Murray, Thomas Webster,

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