Pro-Palestinian MPs have become effectively the sixth largest party after five independent candidates unseated Labour rivals on Thursday.
One candidate, Shockat Adam, said “this is for the people of Gaza!” after being elected the MP for Leicester South, while holding up a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.
Another independent, Ayoub Khan, who won in Birmingham Perry Barr, had previously quit the Liberal Democrats after appearing to question the Oct 7 massacre and refusing to go on an anti-Semitism training course.
