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Labour candidate allegedly calls for British Jews fighting with IDF to be ‘locked up’

Labour suspends Graham Jones who made alleged comments in meeting with Azhar Ali and other party members

February 13, 2024 18:29
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Former Labour MP and prospective parliamentary candidate Graham Jones allegedly ranted about “f**king Israel” and that Britons fighting in the IDF “should be locked up” in a new recording of a party meeting.

Jones is alleged to have made the comments at the same Lancashire gathering where Labour’s disgraced Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali said Israel “allowed” the Hamas attack on October 7 to get a “green light to do whatever they bloody want”.

The former MP for Hyndburn, Jones had been seeking to be re-elected, but has now been suspended pending investigation. The JC understands that Jones was called into a meeting with the party on Tuesday evening.

In the new recording obtained by political website Guido Fawkes, a man alleged to be Jones can be heard saying, “F***ing Israel again, you know, and I’m sure that all of these people think when they go over, but you will not get Israel over the line unless we go at them hard.”