Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has called on pro-Palestine protesters not to take part in events this weekend as a mark of “solidarity” with the Jewish community after two people were killed in a terror attack on a Manchester synagogue.

She said they should take a “step back” and imagine it was their loved ones who had died before deciding whether to go ahead with their plans.

Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66 were killed after Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, drove into a group of people outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue before launching a knife attack on Thursday morning.

Three other worshippers remain seriously ill in hospital. The attacker was shot dead by armed police.

Pro-Palestine marches went ahead as planned across the UK on

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