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Labor loses 5 seats to pro-Palestinian candidates in UK election

Britain’s Labor Party, which ended 14 years of Conservative rule with a landslide victory, lost five parliamentary seats to candidates who made the Gaza conflict the centerpiece of their campaign. In Birmingham Perry Barr, Labour’s Khalid Mahmood lost to independent Ayoub Khan by just 507 votes. In an interview with Anadolu days before the election, Khan told Anadolu that the Liberal Democrats wanted to prevent him from speaking about Gaza. “So, finally, I made the decision to be independent by resigning from the party.” Birmingham, a city of 1.2 million, is home to more than 300,000 Muslims, many of whom