In fairness the Jews in Britain are not as firmly wedded to the Labour Party as the Jews of America are to the Democrats.
Since the time of Thatcher, who represented the heavily Jewish constituency of Finchley in North London, the Jews, well those in the business community (we’ll leave aside the entertainment industry and academia) have backed the Conservatives. Maggie had many Jews in her cabinet including Keith Joseph (who taught her monetary economics) and Nigel Lawson and Leon Britton among many others.
I can well imagine that a self-employed businessman in a city like Manchester as Mr Gould is would be a die-hard Conservative voter and especially so since the Labour Party in most northern British cities these days target the Muslim vote.
Even in the entertainment industry things are changing, the article mentions an interview by popular British actress Maureen Lipmann who herself has recently said she might quit the UK and who had no qualms about blaming the Labour Party for many of the difficulties British Jews face.
I’ll admit to being poisoned by the gun-grabbing, blind Democrat support, of Jews in the US. I did poke around a bit to see if Britain was different - got mixed results. One result was that they tended to split evenly, another was that they were on Labor’s side, until Thatcher. We’ll likely never know for sure - there just aren’t enough of them to be a major force.
So then, does the Daily Telegraph article reflect the truth about being Jewish in UK, or doesn’t it?
And yet Nigel Lawson’s daughter votes Labor. Or at least she has claimed that.