Labour politicians attended vigils in cities across the UK yesterday and today, as people come together to mourn those killed by Hamas’s attacks against Israel. In Manchester, metro mayor Andy Burnham and council leader Bev Craig addressed the vigil, with Burnham warning that any rise in antisemitic hate in Greater Read more…
Labour leader Keir Starmer received two standing ovations after stressing the party’s support for Jews and for Israel in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Starmer said that he was “shocked and appalled by the events in Israel”. He went on to “utterly condemn the senseless Read more…
Keir Starmer strongly backed Israel and condemned Hamas at LFI’s reception on Tuesday evening, at which some 1,000 people turned out to show support for the Jewish state. The Labour leader addressed LFI supporters during a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attacks, during which there was a memorial Read more…
At the start of his keynote speech at conference this morning, shadow foreign secretary and longstanding LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy expressed his support for Israel in the face of Hamas’s recent attacks and declared that “Labour stands firmly in support of Israel’s right to defend itself, rescue hostages and Read more…
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper have today written for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Saturday, October 7th, was a day of horror. Not just for those slaughtered and abducted by Hamas terrorists. Not just for Israel, or for the Jewish Read more…
Angela Rayner led a moment’s silence at Labour party conference in Liverpool today, in memory of those killed in Hamas’s terror attacks against Israel. She said that “I know you will all be appalled by the shocking situation and events in Israel where over one thousand people including 10 British Read more…
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy rushed back to London from Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday to attend a vigil in central London as thousands of people gathered at Downing Street to show their support for Israel. Lammy, told attendees: “I stand amongst you deeply understanding the trauma amongst Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than when Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street in 1997. Although already Read more…
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today. Priorities for the next Labour government Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government offers 26 policy recommendations to a wide Read more…
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for business, Rajesh Agrawal, has today outlined his ambition for the capital’s business links with Israel to boom in the coming years. In an interview with Jewish News, Agrawal said that he has “spoken to many visiting entrepreneurs from Israel and I see huge Read more…
In today’s House of Lords debate on UK support for the Abraham Accords, two Labour peers urged the UK government to more proactively support the Accords on the global stage. Lord Mendelsohn declared the Accords “one of the single most transformational moments in the Middle East”, and urged the UK Read more…
Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Chipping Barnet, Dan Tomlinson, has written the below article about our recent LFI delegation to Israel and Palestine for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Last week, I had pleasure of joining Labour Friends of Israel’s largest ever delegation of parliamentary candidates to Israel Read more…