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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robyn Vinter and Rachel Hall

UK national security adviser under pressure over wife’s comment on supporting Palestine Action

Sarah Helm in 2015 when she was in her late 50s: she has long fair hair and wears a white flower-patterned dress. She sits at a wooden table in a white-painted room under skylights, with bookshelves in the background.
The author Sarah Helm is a former Sunday Times journalist and diplomatic editor at the Independent, and spent many years covering the Middle East. Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian

The UK’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, is under pressure to distance himself from a comment made by his wife, the award-winning writer Sarah Helm, in support of Palestine Action.

The post was made in defence of the critically acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who said she had been forced to pull her books from shelves in the UK after pledging proceeds from their sales to Palestine Action.

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