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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Zarah Sultana: the Labour MP taking on the Tories, and her own party, over Gaza

A woman speaks at a political rally
Zarah Sultana has closely followed the language used by David Cameron and the government about the war in Israel. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty Images

When the UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, sat in the BBC TV studio last Sunday morning, he clearly had no idea of the identity of the woman sitting on the panel opposite him, simply referring to her as “the Labour MP”.

By contrast, Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, knows everything about Lord Cameron, telling the Guardian that it was her hatred of him as prime minister that first brought her into politics as a young, leftwing, Muslim woman. Her whole political outlook has been shaped by Cameron: the trebling of tuition fees and austerity.

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