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Alasdair Soussi

Why has UK’s Labour Party suspended two election candidates over Gaza war?

Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer has suspended two parliamentary candidates over allegations of anti-Semitism [File: Hollie Adams/Reuters]

The British Labour Party, currently the odds-on favourite to win the next UK general election, found itself on the back foot this week when two of its parliamentary candidates were suspended by Keir Starmer, the party’s leader.

Starmer took the decision to suspend Azhar Ali and Graham Jones, on Monday and Tuesday respectively, after claims emerged that they made anti-Semitic remarks about the Israeli state at a Labour meeting in northwest England just weeks after the Hamas assault on southern Israel on October 7.

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