Rishi Sunak has defended the UK’s decision not to suspend arms sales to Israel, saying “none of our closest allies” have done so.
The British prime minister said the UK has a “long-established process” relating to the arms export regime and “we review these things regularly”.
“That’s led to no change. Actually none of our closest allies have currently suspended existing arms licences either, so we continue to discuss these things with our allies,” he said.
Responding to a caller on his LBC phone-in interview, Mr Sunak said Benjamin Netanyahu “needs to do more” to alleviate suffering in Gaza.
“It was a shocking tragedy what happened to our veterans when they were selflessly carrying out aid missions into Gaza and I’ve also said repeatedly the situation in Gaza is increasingly intolerable, you know, the humanitarian suffering that people are experiencing isn’t right and Prime Minister Netanyahu needs to do more to alleviate that,” he said.
“I’ve made that very clear to him.”
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