After spending days defending Mr Azhar Ali, the Labour finally caved in – as the Labour Party withdrew its support for Rochdale by-election candidate following his comments which suggested that Israel allowed the Hamas attack and then used it as a pretext to invade Gaza.
For several months, there has been widespread speculation that Tory backing is plummeting and that the UK may find itself under a Labour government in the next year.
The end of September saw one of the worst escalations between Kosovo and Serbia since Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence in 2008. Early in the morning on the 24th of September, one Kosovo Police officer was shot dead, and during the day, 3 Serb gunmen were killed after they sieged the monastery of Banjska in the north of Kosovo.