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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Labour ‘working to get support back’ after losing votes over Gaza stance

A pro-Palestine march in Westminster on 27 April
A pro-Palestine march in Westminster on 27 April. Photograph: Mark Thomas/Rex/Shutterstock

A senior Labour official has insisted the party wants better lives for Palestinian people as it prepares to shift its campaigning to win back voters opposing its position on Gaza.

Pat McFadden, the party’s national election coordinator, said it would “work to get people’s support back” as analysis showed that despite huge gains in council seats, seizing the West Midlands mayoralty, and Sadiq Khan, the Muslim mayor of London, winning a third term, there was an almost 18% drop in the Labour vote in areas of England where more than a fifth of people identified as Muslim.

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