JEREMY CORBYN has demanded ministers come clean about the RAF’s use of Cyprus bases to aid Israel.

The former Labour leader, now an independent MP, has written to the Foreign Office urging it to tell the truth about RAF Akrotiri’s role in the continuing genocide in Gaza.

He asked it to confirm if the base in Cyprus was being used to ship weapons to Israel and how many US air force flights had been made from it to assist the onslaught against the Palestinians.

“We deserve to know the full scale of our government’s complicity and participation in genocide,” Mr Corbyn said in the letter.

His intervention follows a Christmas visit by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to the base, where he boasted that it was not possible to talk publicly about the vital work being carried out there.

Mr Corbyn also slammed the government over its “admission that it is making an exception to the UK’s legal obligations” after Foreign Secretary David Lammy accepted the fact that F-35 jets are being used in violation of international humanitarian law.

He said: “By justifying the continued licencing of F-35 jet parts, your government is admitting its complicity in war crimes.

“Is it the government’s position that it cannot — or will not — bring the F-35 programme in line with the UK’s legal obligations?

“Is there anything the Israeli government could do that would compel the government to suspend licences for F-35 jet parts?”

Mr Corbyn also warned ministers that they could be held accountable under international law if they supplied weapons to a government whose leader is wanted, as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is, for war crimes.