Labour loses four seats to pro-Palestinian candidates
by Kiran Stacey Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6P0CH)
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jonathan Ashworth among those losing out as party suffers in urban areas with high Muslim populations
Labour has lost four seats to pro-Gaza independent candidates and been run close by several others, as the impact of the Middle East crisis dented an otherwise jubilant night for Keir Starmer's party.
Jonathan Ashworth, the party's shadow Cabinet Office minister, was one of the highest profile political casualties of the rise in support for pro-Palestinian candidates in urban areas with high Muslim populations.
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