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Foreign Secretary James Cleverly blasts leftwing Labour MPs for sharing a party conference platform with Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot and criticising Israel days after Hamas massacres more than 900 civilians

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly today lashed out at Labour MPs who shared a party conference platform with the Palestinian ambassador in the aftermath of Hamas's bloody assault on Israel.

John McDonnell and Bell Ribeiro-Addy attended an event in Liverpool alongside Husam Zomlot at which they criticised the behaviour of the Netanyahu regime and its predecessors towards the Palestinians.

He and the hard left backbench allies of the former party leader Jeremy Corbyn were among the speakers at the event organised by the Labour and Palestine pressure group and the Unite union.