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Labour's unpardonable complicities
SOLOMON HUGHES looks at British-Israeli arms dealing and Labour grandees lining their pockets by pawning the family silver

FOREIGN OFFICE documents from then-foreign secretary James Cleverly’s 2023 Israel visit show the British government likes Israeli arms firm Elbit precisely because its kit is proven by war on Gaza.

Cleverly went on a two-day trip to Israel in September 2023, including visiting the Israeli Air Force’s Palmachim air base.

This January I asked the Foreign Office (FCDO) for papers on the trip under freedom of information rules.

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