Mike Katz
@mikekatz
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Lord Katz - @uklabour peer | HM Government Whip | Labour Faith & Belief Champion | Executive Cttee @londonlabour | ex-Chair @jewishlabour | Spursy
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Joined September 2008
Delighted and proud to be joining the Government as a whip in @UKHouseofLords. Can't wait to help drive forward Labour’s plan for change, including important Bills coming up in the Lords on improving our schools, making work fairer and building more homes and infrastructure.
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JONATHAN FREEDLAND: Why Britain’s Jewish leaders are silent on Farage’s schoolyard antisemitism https://t.co/pujnT7YmkF via @JewishNewsUK
jewishnews.co.uk
While the Reform UK leader and his allies smear accusers as liars, the Board, JLC and HET remain mute, fearing the wrath of a rising politician
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An insulting and demeaning world view. Black and Brown immigrants aren’t here to do the jobs that people like Zack Polanski think are beneath them. There is dignity and value in care work - that’s why Labour has introduced a historic Fair Pay Agreement for social care workers.
🚨NEW: Zack Polanksi on why we need migration: "I don’t know about you but I don't want to wipe someone's bum"
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Some fantastic people joining us in @LabourLordsUK Particularly looking forward to working with my @LondonLabour colleagues Shama Tatler, @sarakhyde, @Brenda_Dacres & @Len_Duvall! Political Peerages December 2025
gov.uk
The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned:
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... i want to know what Nigel Farage thinks about his good friend Candace Owens rank antisemitism. "...what they [Jews] believe in is Evil."
Candace Owens: “They believe in the doctrine of evil, that you must lower yourselves and commit the most depraved acts of evil to prove that evil doesn't actually exist. And then you can ascend in society." @RealCandaceO
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"There are some on the right – Jewish and non-Jewish alike – whose antisemitism detection systems, on high alert when Corbyn hove into view, seem to have mysteriously failed". @Daniel_Sugarman in @JewishNewsUK on selective outrage at Farage’s antisemitism
jewishnews.co.uk
Jeremy Corbyn’s defenders were deluded, but apologists for the Reform UK leader are no better
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Rachel is - and has always been - a real friend to the Jewish community. She drew an important red line in her LFI speech. Rejecting the idea there is something inherently wrong about the right of the Jewish people to self-determination is vital to tackling antisemitism.
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An excellent speech by @RachelReevesMP at the @_LFI lunch today. She nailed the "distortion" that Zionism has to be "apologised for or worse yet, a label to be surrendered to conspiracy theorists and antisemites." Reeves: I’m an unapologetic Zionist
thejc.com
Zionism is not something that should be apologised for, the Chancellor insisted
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I was one of those kids. I've gone on to serve my country as a transplant surgeon, MP and minister. Glasgow has plenty of challenges, but it doesn't need your hissing snake oil Putinist fifth column politics.
Nearly 1 in 3 schoolchildren in Glasgow do not speak English as their first language. This is not diversity. This is culture smashing. Reform UK will make this a big issue in our campaign. 🏴
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✅ 350,000 new workplace & training opportunities ✅ 360 Youth Hubs ✅ A Jobs Guarantee for 18-21 year olds who are long-term unemployed This @uklabour Government is providing opportunities for our young people & backing them to succeed. https://t.co/y0O1D8BoMT
bbc.co.uk
Funding will be used to help employ young people in sectors including AI, hospitality and engineering.
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Look at this angry little man. I’ve been to war three times for this country and spent my life in service- all he does is stoke division and fear for his political project.
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I was one of those kids. I've gone on to serve my country as a transplant surgeon, MP and minister. Glasgow has plenty of challenges, but your hissing snake oil Putinist fifth column politics will be rejected.
Nearly 1 in 3 schoolchildren in Glasgow do not speak English as their first language. This is not diversity. This is culture smashing. Reform UK will make this a big issue in our campaign. 🏴
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Too many young people are not in education, employment or training. We’re changing that. Investing in more apprenticeships. Cutting costs for employers to hire young people. Launching new training in industries of the future like AI and defence. A Britain, built for all.
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I’m really proud to live in a country where I look has never made me feel any less British 🇬🇧 And I’m disgusted by where Reform and the Conservatives are today.
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Farage back in March: "We've been vetting, I bet, to a standard that no other party has ever done before..." Latest: https://t.co/ays790PRUX
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Man jailed for sending antisemitic threats to Jewish MP https://t.co/w0ag87bC4D via @JewishNewsUK
jewishnews.co.uk
Leeds Central and Headingley MP Alex Sobel said 'kill Jews' messages 'left him fearing for the safety of himself and his family'
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Holocaust survivors challenge Nigel Farage over allegations about antisemitic behaviour. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer. https://t.co/W9KpzbhhkH
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
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“I will leave it to the reader to decide whether this was ‘malicious or non-malicious'...It certainly felt malicious to me” Here's the problem with Farage's defence: Macpherson's principle that a racist incident is any perceived to be racist by the victim
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
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4.5 million children in the UK grow up in poverty. Three quarters of them from working families. How can they achieve their potential when they are skipping meals, or going to sleep in a cold bedroom? I will not stand by and watch that happen. We are acting now to lift those
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Proud to unveil the Child Poverty Strategy. Child poverty is a scourge I grew up with, it is a scourge I want to end. This government will drive the biggest reduction of child poverty in a single Parliament. This is how we get there. https://t.co/JP2ertibAS
gov.uk
Strategy document setting out the government’s ambitious decade long mission to tackle the drivers of child poverty across the UK.
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Perhaps now Farage will do the right thing and apologise. Tice too, for calling his boss's victims liars...
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
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