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Caplin — who turned 66 a month later — is, of course, a former Labour councillor in Brighton and Hove (1991–1998); the former Labour MP for Hove (1997–2005); a defence minister under Tony Blair, during the invasion of Iraq, from 2003; vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel (1997–2005); chair of the Jewish Labour Movement (May 2018-April 2019 — when he was succeeded by Lord [Mike] Katz, who was recently appointed to the House of Lords by Sir Keir Starmer).

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-226/

Caplin has been close friends with Peter Kyle for two decades

https://greghadfield.medium.com/revealed-zionism-abuse-pornography-and-worse-f080409f8606

Until last year, Caplin and Kyle were neighbours living two minutes’ walk away in two flats in the same road in central Hove

Crucially, Caplin — a close friend, for two decades, of Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove — was elected in November 2021 to the Labour Party’s powerful Southeast Regional Board.

The Labour Party has, in recent days, simply deleted the page on which Caplin was named as a board-member. Fortunately, I took screenshots on December 22 2024:
The page naming Caplin as a member of Labour’s Southeast Regional Board has been deleted, sometime after December 22 2023

Ms Sharpe was the first to congratulate Caplin; another extreme Zionist was second to do so:

Others followed Ms Sharpe, with their best wishes. Although it appears, in the last few days, “Chris” has had a change of heart.
Some of Caplin’s friends are clearly scrubbing their timelines

Could “Chris”, some have suggested, be Chris Ward, the new Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, who worked for Caplin when fresh out of Oxford University, before coming Sir Keir Starmer’s deputy chief of staff for five years? [From memory, my guess is it was Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant). But I don’t know.]

Since his election, Ward has been appointed one of Sir Keir’s two parliamentary private secretaries, a remarkable and swift elevation for such a new MP.