Israel’s Foreign Ministry fell for a fake Twitter account pretending to belong to an aide of the far-left leader of Britain’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn.
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Sir Nicholas said he would be anxious if such an approach was “translated into power”, prompting Mr Corbyn to argue that the head of the armed forces had overstepped the mark and breached conventions that the military should stay out of party political matters.
“It’s been the policy of successive governments both Labour and Conservative”.
However, aides said that Mr Benn would not end a 13-year career on the Labour frontbench over the issue.
As the pressure grew, he was forced to release a statement on Tuesday clarifying that he supported “the use of whatever proportionate and strictly necessary force is required to save life in response to attacks of the kind we saw in Paris”.
When Mr Corbyn was asked if his earlier remarks in which he suggested shoot to kill could “often be counter-productive” meant that terrorists brandishing Kalashnikovs should not be shot, Mr Mann complained he didn’t receive a clear response from the Labour leader.
“Surely a crucial way to help defeat ISIL is to cut off its funding, its supply of arms, and its trade, ” Corbyn said during prime minister’s questions (PMQs). Corbyn, who has a close relationship with Stop the War, refused to condem the tweet or cancel his appearance at Stop the War’s Christmas dinner next month.
Shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show: “The foreign policy of all of the developed world has not worked”.
Corbyn came under repeated attack at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party last night over his stance on the legality of police action in the Paris attacks, the assassination of Mohamed Emwazi by a U.S. drone strike and his intentions to attend a meeting of the Stop the War Coalition. “I feel the Labour party is like a great ship of state holed below the waterline and is now gently sinking below the waves”, one former shadow cabinet minister said.
“I think our media needs to be able to report things that happen outside Europe as well as inside Europe”. You can’t bomb terrorism – you can only bomb people.
He told Wales Online that he thought his leader’s position on shoot-to-kill was wrong ‘and so do the vast majority of Labour MPs and most people in the country. There are a few very big questions and we have to be careful.
On Monday, speaking from the G20 summit in Ankara, Turkey, Cameron reiterated his intention to push for a second vote, telling the BBC, “I have always said I think that it is sensible that we should”.
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The Met Commissioner stressed fanatics intent on slaughtering hundreds of innocent people had to know officers would be just as “ruthless” and “determined” in confronting them.
