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A COMMITTEE of MPs has announced it is to re-examine the issue of whether British funding for counter-narcotics operations contributes to increasing the number of executions overseas.
The home affairs select committee was responding to concerns repeatedly expressed by legal action charity Reprieve.
The website of committee chairman Keith Vaz, a Labour MP, says that he “shares the concerns that have been raised about the UK’s financial and operational support for overseas drug operations.”
Just as the Chilcot inquiry eventually exposed government failings over the Iraq war, a full independent investigation into British complicity in Israeli war crimes has become inevitable — despite official obstruction, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP
Israel’s monopolisation of ‘aid’ to slaughter Palestinians means there is no other option: direct international intervention now, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
