Lucy Hough

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3,855 appearances 82 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Today in Focus · Why is Trump silent on UK sanctions against Israeli West Bank settlements? – The Latest · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

You're our diplomatic editor. voice-verified

Criticism has come in particular from the UK's chief rabbi. voice-verified

How has Miliband responded to the criticism and what is the criticism of the chief rabbi? voice-verified

Yeah, which is surprising because as we discussed on yesterday's show with Emma Graham Harrison, Miliband was so careful and specific in his language to criticize not the existence of the State of Israel. voice-verified

He spoke of his own identity as a Jewish man, his visits to kibbutz and to Israel as a child and since then. voice-verified

This was about the specific actions of the Israeli government, some figures within that government, and specifically what he labelled settler terrorists and their activities in the illegally occupied West Bank. voice-verified

So he was careful to address those points. voice-verified

Of course he was. voice-verified

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So the chief rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mervis, has been critical. voice-verified

But the Conservative Party, as you were touching on there, have also been critical. voice-verified

The shadow foreign secretary, Tom Tugendhat, said that the government was enacting policies that, in his view, wouldn't work and that they knew that, the implication being that this is sort of performative politics. voice-verified

I wonder if you think there's any validity in that, because Ed Miliband did say that this is a sanctions programme that is going to take several months to enact. voice-verified

And obviously, we're dealing with a crisis that is very live. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

And it is this seismic shift in UK-Israeli relations. voice-verified

And you've written a very fascinating piece about sort of what happened inside the room, why this decision was taken now, and why it didn't happen under Starmer's government. voice-verified

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