Foreign Secretary David Lammy praised the government’s decision to restore funding to controversial UN Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa in a keynote speech at the Labour Party conference.
Addressing a packed hall in Liverpool on Sunday afternoon, Lammy attacked the Conservative Party and said it “damaged our reputation abroad”.
Signalling a change from the previous Tory policy of defunding the controversy-ridden body Lammy said: “When we restored funding to Unrwa for their work in Gaza, what did we say conference? Britain is back.”
The Foreign Secretary then made an implicit defence of the government’s decision to suspend some arms sales to Israel, telling his party: “When we stood up for international law when it was not easy: what did we say? Britain is back.”
