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Lord Ricketts says further steps needed to put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu after seven aid workers killed in Gaza

Last modified on Mon 17 May 2021 09.13 EDT The recent outbreak of intercommunal violence in Israel has prompted two former Conservative Foreign Office ministers to urge the British government to realise the Palestinian issue cannot simply be managed in the hope it will fade away. The calls reflect a tension inside the party over Palestine that has often been overshadowed by the more glaring disputes inside Labour over antisemitism. Some observers predict the Tories’ recent electoral progress among Muslim voters may eventually erode the rock solid support for Israel in the party. The Israeli...

Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 14.33 EDT UK aid to individual African countries is being cut by 66% this year and aid to the Indo-Pacific region by 68%, aid agencies have said on the basis of new figures provided by the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab. The scale of the cuts was described by a former Conservative Foreign Office minister, Liz Sugg, as “difficult to comprehend”. She said the impact on education was being likened by experts to “acts of violence against the world’s poorest women and girls”. Raab revealed at a Lords select committee on Tuesday that UK bilateral aid to s...