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Gaza backlash unseats Labour frontbencher as Jeremy Corbyn beats party he once led
(www.independent.co.uk)
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The impact of the war in Gaza saw Labour lose a prominent frontbencher and helped Jeremy Corbyn beat the party he once led, even as it secured a landslide victory.
Leader Sir Keir Starmer was also heckled with shouts of "Free Palestine" at a polling station in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency and at his election count.
He was defeated by Shockat Adam, who accused Mr Ashworth of refusing “to vote for a ceasefire to end the bloodshed in Gaza, resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of innocent civilians".
New Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain said in a statement to voters: "I promise to make your concerns against the injustice being inflicted against the people of Gaza be heard in the places where our so-called representatives failed."
Earlier this year Sir Keir changed his party’s position on the war, to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, followig immense pressure from supporters and some of his own MPs.
But the impact of the war helped former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pull off a shock victory in his long-held seat of Islington North in London.
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