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Keir Starmer, right, speaks to Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
June 19, 2026, 10:31 am
Special election win by Starmer rival could lead to UK PM’s fall: 5 key players and where they stand on Israel
Vote won by Andy Burnham seen as proxy battle over Labour’s future, with would-be successors in party positioning themselves to take a run at the premiership. But are they good for the Jews?
By Robert Philpot
Then-UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting leaves 10 Downing Street after a cabinet meeting in London, Tuesday, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
May 16, 2026, 8:18 pm
UK’s ex-health minister Streeting says will run to replace PM Keir Starmer
Recently resigned minister says Labour needs ‘proper’ leadership contest; popular Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham also launches run, seen as favorite to unseat Starmer
By Agencies
British Health Secretary Wes Streeting walks through the House of Commons to attend the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster, London, May 13, 2026. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP)
May 14, 2026, 9:56 pm
UK health secretary resigns, setting up potential leadership challenge to Starmer
Wes Streeting says he’s lost confidence in premier, who should not serve out rest of his term; another possible challenger, ex-deputy PM Rayner, says she’s ready for contest
By DANICA KIRKA, brian melley and Pan Pylas
Green Party leader Zack Polanski (C) celebrates with the party's newly elected Mayor of Lewisham, Liam Shrivastava (centre R), and supporters, outside the count center in Lewisham, south London, on May 8, 2026. (Brook Mitchell / AFP)
May 9, 2026, 12:23 pm
Anti-Israel Greens win 2 mayoralties, 5 councils in UK local elections; hard-right Reform is big winner
Farage’s Reform would be largest party in Parliament if general elections were held today; Polanski’s Green Party, engulfed in antisemitism scandals, wins mayoralty and council control in London’s Hackney, home to large ultra-Orthodox community
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Britain's Reform Party leader Nigel Farage shows his socks as he arrives at a polling station in Walton on the Naze, England, May 7, 2026 to cast his vote in the local elections.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)
May 8, 2026, 4:41 pm
In UK local elections, anti-immigrant Reform soars; anti-Israel Greens rise, win 2 mayoralties
Starmer says he won’t quit; new mayor of Hackney reportedly blocked letter praising London police for response to antisemitic attack; Farage says results show ‘truly historic shift’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
MPs Peter Prinsley (L) and Simon Opher (UK Parliament/CC BY 3.0)
September 17, 2025, 5:21 pm
Two British lawmakers reportedly denied entry to West Bank for ‘public order’ issues
MPs Peter Prinsley and Simon Opher said they were barred at Jordan border crossing; UK Foreign Office: ‘No way’ to treat MPs; Opher says they didn’t aim to ‘undermine the Israelis’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
The Bob Vylan duo performs at the Glastonbury Festival, June 28, 2025. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
June 29, 2025, 3:07 pm
UK condemns ‘Death to IDF’ chants led by rapper at Glastonbury festival; police probing
Minister calls performance by duo Bob Vylan ‘appalling,’ but also lashes Israel over settler violence, Gaza humanitarian crisis; BBC screened act live, is asked to explain why
By Agencies and ToI Staff
British Labour MP Chris Williamson. (YouTube screenshot)
February 27, 2019, 2:00 pm
UK Labour MP says party is ‘too apologetic’ about anti-Semitism
Chris Williamson says sorry for how he ‘chose to express’ himself, adds ‘there have been very few instances of anti-Semitism’ in the party
By ToI Staff
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
The deputy head of British Labour Party, Tom Watson, sits in the audience ahead of the Labour leadership announcement at a party conference in Liverpool on September 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/OLI SCARFF)
April 5, 2017, 3:52 pm
UK Labour No. 2: ‘Incomprehensible’ Livingstone not booted from party
British opposition’s own MPs and London mayor denounce decision to merely suspend inflammatory politican for Hitler-Zionist claims and other comments denounced as anti-Semitic
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Ken Livingstone speaking on April 30, 2016 to London radio station LBC (screen capture: Twitter)
April 30, 2016, 1:09 pm
Livingstone blames ’embittered Blairites’ for outcry on anti-Semitic remarks
Former mayor of London, suspended for saying Hitler supported Zionism, says he would not have made the comment if he’d known it would be made into ‘mega-issue’
By ToI Staff
Ken Livingstone outside his home in London on Friday, April 29, 2016 (YouTube screen capture)
April 29, 2016, 7:40 pm
Livingstone doubles down on Hitler backing Zionism: ‘They don’t teach it in Israel’
Anti-Israel politician George Galloway backs former mayor, says ‘Nazism and Zionism were two sides of the same coin’; WWII historian rejects claims outright
By ToI Staff
UK Labour MP Wes Streeting. (courtesy)
April 27, 2016, 4:31 pm
UK Labour’s anti-Semitism is ‘like lifting up a stone and having insects crawl out,’ says MP
Labour’s Wes Streeting, vice-chairman of anti-Semitism group, shocked at fellow MP’s comments; says ‘something very ugly’ also going on in student politics
By Jenni Frazer
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