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I'm James Hill.

I'm joined today by the Spectators Isabel Hardman and Sophia Gaston,

Director of Foreign Policy at Policy Exchange.

Now Isabelle, I think first of all the Great Westman's today has really been dominated by the

attack on Monday which killed three British aid workers and now the consequent debate around

should Britain impose armed sanctions on Israel talks about this different

issue and how the politics of guards that are continued to play out six months after 7th October.

Yeah, so Rishi Sunak has been interviewed about this today and obviously he's called the attack. He said he was appalled and he said he's told

Benjamin Netanyahu that and also that he's been telling Israel that it needs to do more to protect civilian lives. What Sunak

person is coming under pressure over is arms sales to Israel. So you've had Lord

Ricketts, you've had Alan Duncan, and then you've had a number of

opposition parties, so the SMP and the Greens, not particularly surprising, saying that the government should suspend arms sales to Israel now.

Labour has a slightly different approach, but it's not that far off what the others have been saying, which is that the government should

suspend arms sales to Israel if government legal advice suggested it has broken international

humanitarian law.

And there have been over the past few weeks suggestions that that advice has already been given that Israel is breaking that.

And notably from Alicia Kearns who is the chair of the

Foreign Affairs select committee was obviously well placed a better place that

the most to know what might be being said within Whitehall on this. So Labor's position, again,

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