Andy Burnham has moved to woo Labour’s hard left after taking the party leadership with a vow to be tougher on Israel when he enters No10.
The de-facto prime minister signalled a tougher stance towards Tel Aviv over its military operations in Gaza following the October Hamas atrocity.
In a video on social media, he apologised for Labour’s previous stance, saying his party ‘didn’t get it right’ under Sir Keir Starmer and the UK had been ‘too slow to call for a ceasefire’.
Mr Burnham suggested that his government would ‘do more to strengthen our approach’, including ‘looking at further sanctions, both on those
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