He's a conservative former minister who speaks sense on the question of Israel and Palestine.

Not words, you'd probably expect me to say, but it is true in this case.

Now this interview I'm about to do is very important, but first a bit of context.

Sir Alan Duncan, who I'm going to speak to, is a former Conservative Minister in the International

Development Office and the Foreign Office, and he was smeared and then had his name vindicated. In April he made

some important comments on LBC which led to the Conservative Party taking

action against him. Let's have a listen firstly to this clip from that interview.

We should stop arms sales immediately.

I think that anything in support of what is becoming a total catastrophe in Gaza

is morally unacceptable. And what we have to accept is morally unacceptable.

And what we have to accept is not just what they're doing now is wrong,

is what Israel's been doing for years has been wrong,

because the Israeli Defence Force does not follow international law.

It has been backing and supporting illegal settlers in the West Bank who steal Palestinian land.

And it is that land theft that annexation of Palestine which is the

origin of the problem which has given rise to the Hamas atrocity and the

battles we're seeing.

No lies detected there.

Now let's listen to this next clip.

There are a lot of people at the top of our own politics

who refuse to condemn settlements and therefore are not supporters of international law.

And I think the time has come to flush out those extremists in our own parliamentary politics

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