Chair of Menorah High School David Landau to fight Diane Abbott for Hackney North seat - The Jewish Chronicle

Dr David Landau, the chairman of the Strictly Orthodox educational representative body Chinuch UK, has been chosen by the Conservatives to contest Hackney North and Stoke Newington, the Labour seat held for 37 years by Diane Abbott.

Abbott, who was a former Shadow Home Secretary under Jeremy Corbyn, won a majority of over 33,000 at the 2019 election.

The constituency boundaries have been redrawn but still include three wards with big Charedi populations.

All six Charedi councillors in the borough represent Conservatives with the former Liberal Democrat Ian Sharer returning to the council for the Tories in a by-election a few months ago. The sole Strictly Orthodox Labour councillor Eluzer Goldberg has just stepped down.

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