Boris blasts Lammy for ‘abandoning’ Israel

It’s certainly not been a quiet return to parliament. On Monday afternoon, Labour’s David Lammy announced that Britain would be suspending 30 of 350 arms export licenses to Israel – after concluding there was a ‘clear risk’ of a number of weapons being used to violate international humanitarian law. But while the Foreign Secretary has insisted that ‘this is not an arms embargo’, it seems not everyone is entirely convinced by the move…

One former prime minister has this morning taken to Twitter to blast Lammy’s decision. Boris Johnson popped up on social media to rage that: ‘Hamas is still holding many innocent Jewish hostages while Israel tries to prevent a repeat of the 7th October massacre. Why are Lammy and Starmer abandoning Israel? Do they want Hamas to win?’ Oo er.