Why is David Cameron being reported to the ethics adviser?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In the early hours of Thursday morning Layla Moran - the only British MP of Palestinian heritage- received news she’d been longing to hear for months.
Her family had finally escape from Gaza. Through perilous crossings and treacherous check points a family of five - including a seventy year old grandmother and two young children- had walked to safety.
As Layla herself recognises their relief is starkly contrasted with the two million others who can’t escape. Today we hear that story.
And we ask why the Lib Dem’s have referred Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron to the ethics adviser over questions of whether he concealed what he knew about the illegality of Israel’s war. We will discuss whether there is a case for government to answer. And where the war in Gaza goes now.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. In the midst of the agony of the Israel-Gaza conflict, |
| 0:16.9 | there is a question that is both pressing and urgent for the British government. And it's this. |
| 0:23.6 | Have government ministers ignored the legal advice which says that Israel is in breach of international humanitarian law? |
| 0:34.6 | And therefore, there should be no arms sales from the UK to Israel. |
| 0:40.4 | Well, that is the charge made today by one parliamentarian, who this morning referred David Cameron, |
| 0:46.9 | the Foreign Secretary and Kemi Badenok, the business secretary, to the government's ethic advisor |
| 0:52.6 | to ask if the ministerial code has been breached. |
| 0:56.6 | The MP in question is the only MP in Parliament of Palestinian heritage, Leila Moran. |
| 1:04.0 | And four months ago, she came on this podcast and talked about the agony of trying to get her family out. |
| 1:13.0 | Last night, they managed it. |
| 1:18.0 | We had the news overnight that they are now landed in Bahrain. |
| 1:19.3 | They are safe. |
| 1:20.9 | We've got them out. |
| 1:22.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:27.5 | The newsagents. |
| 1:29.9 | It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:34.1 | And today we're going to hear an extraordinarily personal story. |
| 1:40.8 | And it is of the family of Leila Moran, her third cousins, five members of her family, who have for four months lived under the constant bombardment in Gaza and have |
| 1:47.0 | been trying to find a way out. Layla is very honest about the help that she has had to give |
| 1:53.7 | them to make it possible and she's very conscious that they're just one family in the midst |
| 1:58.9 | of two million who cannot get out of Gaza. But today |
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