SCOTTISH Labour MP Michael Shanks has refused to back his nominal leader Anas Sarwar over calls for the UK to stop exporting weapons to Israel ...
MP Michael Shanks has refused to back his nominal leader Anas Sarwar over calls for the UK to stop exporting weapons to Israel.’s Sunday Show, Shanks instead backed his UK leaders’ position on whether or not the UK should be providing arms to Israel.
“These are clear breaches, in my view, of international law and therefore we should not be selling arms to Israel.”However, appearing on the BBC, Shanks would not back Sarwar's position and instead insisted it was"right" that the UK Labour Party has declined to call for an end to Israeli weapons exports without seeing the UK Government's legal advice on the issue.
He responded: “I don't think that is what he's saying, actually, but there's a legal process here. It's right that we find out what intelligence the UK Government's got.Commons He condemned the attacks by Hamas on October 7 which sparked the conflict but said the response “has gone far beyond any legitimate response”.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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