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A former British Army officer’s fundraiser in the wake of Thursday’s terror attack at a Manchester synagogue smashed its target within hours of going live.

But Andrew Fox also launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour colleagues, accusing them of failing to take a proper moral stand against terrorism.

Mr Fox, a former Parachute Regiment officer with three Afghanistan tours under his belt, set up the appeal as a means of showing solidarity with the UK’s Jewish community after the atrocity, in which three people, including the attacker, later named as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, were killed.

The 38-year-old PhD student and advocate for the Jewish community, who is now a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, launched the GoFundMe page late on Thursday afternoon.

The page initially aimed to raise £3,000 for the Community Security Trust (CST), the charity that provides security to Britain’s Jews – but by early evening, donations had soared past that total, with contributions pouring in from across the UK and beyond, according to the platform.