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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey, Eleni Courea and Aletha Adu

Labour suspends second parliamentary candidate over Israel comments

Graham Jones was suspended after a recording emerged of him saying Britons who fight for the Israel Defense Forces should be ‘locked up’.
Graham Jones was suspended after a recording emerged of him saying Britons who fight for the Israel Defense Forces should be ‘locked up’. Photograph: UK Parliament

Labour has suspended a second parliamentary candidate over their remarks about Israel, as Keir Starmer struggles to contain the fallout from the leak of a private meeting of party activists in Lancashire last year.

Party sources said on Tuesday that Labour had suspended Graham Jones, the candidate for Hyndburn, less than 24 hours after the party withdrew its support from Azhar Ali, its candidate for the Rochdale byelection later this month.

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