45 MPs and Peers insist Starmer must apologise for UK colonial actions in Palestine

Forty-five MPs and peers have backed an open letter calling for Keir Starmer to formally apologise for Britain’s actions in colonial Palestine between 1917 and 1948.

The letter, drafted by leading human rights KCs Ben Emmerson and Danny Friedman, begins by stating:”In 1947 Britain gave away Palestine, a land we had no right to give, even under the laws of the time.”

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