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- ↑ Official Register Of All-Party Groups in the UK Parliament
- ↑ "Group Members". Antisemitism.org.uk/. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism (UK) (September 2006). "Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2007.
- ↑ "Articles & Press Releases 2013 Electoral Conduct Inquiry". Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
