Group and a parliamentary supporter of Labour Friends of Israel. He resigned from the Labour group in July 2019 together with Ara Darzi and David Triesman. Turnberg cited dissatisfaction with the party's policies on foreign affairs, its approach to Brexit and what he called the "bypassing of parliamentary opinion" and the "overt anti-Semitism that permeates the party machine". Personal life On the unexpected death of his son Daniel in 2007 he established a travelling fellowship that allows medical researchers from the Middle East to visit UK academic institutions. See also List of Barons in the Peerages of the British Isles References External links National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique 1934 births 20th-century British medical doctors English people of Polish-Jewish descent English people of Romanian-Jewish descent Labour Party (UK) life peers Knights Bachelor Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Living people Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians Jewish British politicians Labour Friends of Israel Life peers created by Elizabeth II