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...But Labour said in a statement on Monday evening: “Following new information about further comments made by Azhar Ali coming to light today, the Labour party has withdrawn its support for Azhar Ali as our...
...Sir Keir Starmer’s team fear that if Azhar Ali were to be suspended, it could help the rival campaign of pro-Palestinian candidate and former Labour MP George Galloway, fuelling community tensions....
...She said that while George Galloway’s victory “isn’t how we wanted things to play out”, the decision by party leader Sir Keir Starmer to withdraw support from Azhar Ali last month was “the right thing to...
...The party on Monday said it would no longer support Azhar Ali in the by-election scheduled for February 29 following “new information” about comments he made came to light....
...This week, Labour removed its backing for Azhar Ali, the party’s candidate for the upcoming Rochdale by-election, after he allegedly made anti-Israel comments....
...Starmer has also been criticised for his handling of remarks by Labour’s candidate in the Rochdale by-election, Azhar Ali, who claimed Israel let Hamas attack on October 7 to give it a pretext to launch...
...Azhar Ali, Labour’s candidate in the North West seat of Rochdale, suggested at a meeting of members soon after Hamas launched its October 7 attack on Israel that the Jewish state had deliberately relaxed...
...The Labour leader was already facing the fallout from his chaotic handling of the suspension of Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali when news broke that a second candidate had also been dropped from...
...His intervention came after long-simmering tensions between the party’s ruling centrist wing and hobbled left erupted once again this week in the wake of a row over the disciplinary treatment of Azhar Ali...
...Azhar Ali, the candidate chosen by Labour to defend Lloyd’s 9,668 majority at the 2019 election, was disowned by the party on Monday night after leader Sir Keir Starmer initially stood by him....
...It came just a day after Starmer decided to drop Azhar Ali as the party’s candidate in an upcoming by-election in Rochdale, another constituency in north-west England, over leaked comments from the same...
...The first is the Rochdale by-election thrown into chaos after Labour candidate Azhar Ali was recorded repeating anti-Israel conspiracy theories about the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel....
...Similarly weird and equally disgraceful was the statement by Azhar Ali, Labour’s candidate in Rochdale, that Israel permitted the Hamas atrocities on October 7 as a pretext to invade Gaza....
...Labour selected Azhar Ali, a local councillor, to contest the seat but withdrew support from him after it was revealed that he had claimed Israel “allowed” the deadly attack by Hamas last October that killed...
...Labour was criticised for initially backing its candidate Azhar Ali after leaked comments, in which he said Israel had allowed Hamas to attack on October 7, sparked an antisemitism dispute....
...Local party members had chosen a candidate, Azhar Ali, who was later caught expressing a conspiracy theory that the Israeli government allowed the October massacres to occur to give it a pretext for a military...
...Labour under pressure over Rochdale candidate’s Israel remarks | Keir Starmer is facing mounting political pressure to distance Labour from its candidate in the Rochdale by-election, after Azhar Ali reportedly...
...“There’s been a generational shift,” said Hammad Azhar, a senior PTI member, adding that younger voters “don’t identify with the old dynastic parties”....
...If you know Azhar Ali it is probably because the Labour party spent a lot of time yesterday also insisting it was standing by him. All in all, a bit of a disaster....
...I think out of the three main parties, including Azhar Ali, who was going to be the Labour candidate until he was suspended, they managed to muster 25 per cent in total of the vote....
...Ali — first defending him and then dropping him....
...But the high point of Francis’s trip was meeting Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani....
...According to the election commission’s Mr Azhar, the next one is expected to cost much more....
...He led a charmed life while his opening partner Azhar Ali played in his orthodox style. After 10 overs Pakistan were 56-0. India tried in vain to strangle Fakhar on his strong legside....
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