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Hackney’s Haifa decision ‘destructive and provocative’, says Barnet Labour

Neighbouring borough votes 29 to one to explore its own link with the Israeli city, in a Conservative party motion that wrongly says Hackney’s twinning ends this month

Hackney’s Haifa decision ‘destructive and provocative’, says Barnet Labour
Barnet council leader Cllr Barry Rawlings. Photograph: Barnet Council
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