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Illustrative: UK Labour MP Ian Austin accuses party leader Jeremy Corbyn of anti-Semitism during a Commons debate on April 17, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

February 22, 2019, 1:17 pm

Holocaust survivor’s son quits UK Labour over ‘extremism, anti-Semitism’

Ian Austin, the adopted child of a refugee, is ninth MP to quit the British opposition party, but says he won’t be joining the newly formed centrist Independent Group

By TOI staff and Agencies

Former Labour MP and chair of Labour Friends of Israel, Joan Ryan (ToI staff)

February 20, 2019, 4:18 am

Citing anti-Semitism, UK Labour Friends of Israel head is 8th MP to quit party

Announcing departure from Labour after four decades, Joan Ryan, who is not Jewish, slams Corbyn for presiding over party’s ‘culture of anti-Jewish racism and hatred of Israel’

By TOI staff and Agencies

Former Labour party MP Luciana Berger (C), arrives with MPs Chris Leslie (3R), Angela Smith (2R) and Gavin Shuker, to speak at a press conference in London on February 18, 2019, where they announced their resignation from the Labour Party, and the formation of a new independent group of MPs (Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

February 18, 2019, 1:00 pm

MP says UK Labour is ‘institutionally anti-Semitic’ as 7 lawmakers quit party

Announcing biggest split in 38 years, one MP cites ‘very difficult, painful but necessary decision’; another charges that party ‘turned its back on the British public’ over Brexit

By TOI staff and Agencies

Illustrative: People hold up placards and Union flags as they gather for a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in central London on April 8, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

February 12, 2019, 11:45 am

UK Labour lawmakers lash leaders on anti-Semitism figures

7 MPs tell Corbyn report saying hundreds of anti-Semitism complaints led to several dozen members’ suspension is ‘incomplete,’ fear Labour is ‘institutionally antisemitic’

By TOI staff

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves the stage after delivering a speech at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 24, 2018. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images via JTA)

February 5, 2019, 9:01 am

UK Labour MPs demand data on party’s efforts to root out anti-Semitism

General Secretary Jennie Formby faces charges of foot-dragging in tackling abuse, insists progress has been made

By JTA and TOI staff

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves a cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London, January 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

January 15, 2019, 10:02 pm

UK Parliament rejects May’s Brexit deal, in biggest defeat in modern history

Lawmakers shoot down PM’s proposal in devastating 432-202 vote, plunging the bid to leave the European Union into chaos

By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and Gregory Katz

Britain's House of Commons Speaker John Bercow (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

January 11, 2019, 12:22 am

Jewish House of Commons speaker caught in Brexit battle crossfire

John Bercow, who is supposed to be neutral, slammed by pro-Brexit right for allowing amendment forcing gov’t to quickly draft new deal if agreement with EU rejected by Parliament

By AP

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, arrives to meet France's President Emmanuel Macron after the "Tech for Good" Summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP/Francois Mori)

November 25, 2018, 4:41 am

UK lawmakers seize secret Facebook docs from racy app maker suing Zuckerberg

Unable to get answers about Cambridge Analytica scandal from social media giant, MP orders documents from founder of Six4Three, which used data breach to trawl for bikini pics

By TOI staff

Sir Philip Green, a British billionaire and the CEO of the Arcadia Group, right, tours a Topshop store in central Hong Kong, June 5, 2013 (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

October 27, 2018, 4:04 am

UK Jewish tycoon said to have paid millions to cover up sexual harassment claims

Insider says TopShop owner Philip Green’s behavior included lewd comments to women, lengthy hugs to female workers and comments on their weight; he denies unlawful actions

By TOI staff and AP

In this file photo taken on September 17, 2017 Chairman of Arcadia Group, Philip Green, is pictured before the start of the Topshop catwalk show for the Spring/Summer 2018 collection on the third day of The London Fashion Week Women's in London. (CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP)

October 26, 2018, 1:41 am

UK Jewish fashion mogul named in sexual harassment scandal

Philip Green rejects allegations after British lawmaker uses free speech guarantee to break court injunction against reporting on claims

By AP

British MP Frank Field. (UK Parliament official portrait/Wikipedia/CC BY)

August 30, 2018, 10:14 pm

Veteran UK Labour Party lawmaker quits, citing anti-Semitism scandal

Frank Field, now in his 40th year in Parliament, lashes party as ‘a force for anti-Semitism in British politics’ leading to ‘erosion of our core values’

By AP and TOI staff

The offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA) in central London, March 20, 2018. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)

April 17, 2018, 7:45 am

UK academic says data firm helped Trump campaign spread fear

Researcher tells British parliament committee that presidential hopeful used info from Cambridge Analytica to effectively deploy ‘false racist and Islamophobic comments’

By DANICA KIRKA

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets with a group of entrepreneurs and innovators during a round-table discussion at Cortex Innovation Community technology hub in St. Louis, November 9, 2017. (Jeff Roberson/AFP)

March 27, 2018, 9:16 pm

Facebook’s Zuckerberg rebuffs British MPs for data privacy grilling

CEO and founder of social media giant offers to send a deputy instead, but parliamentary committee chair says he wants to speak with the boss himself

By Dario Thuburn

Dudley North representative Ian Austin. (UK Parliament)

March 23, 2018, 9:44 am

A quiet English town fights anti-Semitism thanks to a Holocaust survivor’s son

Representing Dudley North, MP Ian Austin has drawn on his father’s legacy to become one of the harshest critics of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn from within the Labour party

By Robert Philpot

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session, in Parliament in London, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

March 14, 2018, 3:38 pm

UK expelling 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning

London to suspend all high-level bilateral contact with Moscow; Russia denies it was source of deadly nerve agent used in strike

By Agencies