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Keir Starmer delivered his Labour Party Conference speech at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool on Tuesday
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The Israel-Hamas war cast a shadow over the Labour Party's annual conference as delegates gathered in Liverpool this week.

Keir Starmer won a standing ovation for his keynote speech, in which the Labour leader condemned the “senseless” violence unleashed in Israel by Hamas “terrorists”. “This action by Hamas does nothing for Palestinians and Israel must always have the right to defend her people,” he said.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.