DEFENCE SALES
Jet wash
AS ISRAEL’s fleet of F-35 fighter jets unleash their indiscriminate payloads over Gaza’s starving population, Keir Starmer’s threat to take “concrete action” against the Israeli government for its “egregious” offensive will have offered little comfort.
Just four days before the PM joined France’s Emmanuel Macron and Canada’s Mark Carney in calling on Benjamin Netanyahu to end the horror or face – limited – consequences, his government’s lawyers were making closing arguments against a high court challenge to a loophole which allows shipments of vital components to keep the warplanes flying.