UK general election: How pro-Gaza candidates defeated Labour in several seats

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer will be unlikely to have much of a honeymoon period (PA)

Helen Corbett

While the Labour Party's position on Gaza has not dented its landslide General Election win, several of its candidates lost to independent challengers campaigning on a pro-Palestine platform.

Keir Starmer was also heckled with shouts of "Free Palestine" both at the polling station in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency and at his election count as he was declared to have won his seat.