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Gavin Williamson
THE main opposition party in Cyprus has “denounced” plans by hawkish Tory MP Gavin Williamson to send fighter jets to the Mediterranean island.
Britain’s defence secretary said this week that “formidable” new F-35B aircraft will be deployed to the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Akrotiri this autumn for their first overseas deployment.
The Progressive Party of Working People (Akel) said the move would not make Cypriots feel secure.
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA
While David Lammy makes hollow criticisms, RAF Akrotiri conducts five-hour surveillance flights sending targeting data to Israel, reports ALFIE HOWIS
