Wes Streeting

Now, that might have been the way that the briefing operation against me in Downing Street worked.

But you'll have noticed, Lewis, that until the messages were released this week, I didn't publish that dossier.

I didn't leak that dossier.

It wasn't about me trying to look good or morally superior.

It was literally, I had met British doctors.

I had been distressed by what they had told me.

I had seen serious and substantial allegations of war crimes being committed.

And I felt this country had a moral and legal responsibility to respond.

And there are things, and I am proud of the fact that I and others got the government to a place where we recognise the state of Palestine.

I think we were right to sanction leading members of the Israeli government and right to sanction Israeli settlers involved in violence in the West Bank.

I am only too sorry that it took that long to get to the right position.

But it wasn't for want of trying on my part or others.

And I also understand why other people were kind of saying, you know, in response to the messages coming out this week, well, why didn't he resign?

Why didn't he?

Well, because why would I pick up a placard?

when I had a position inside a government where I could affect change.

And it was unfair.

What does that say about the Prime Minister's attitude towards Gaza?

He can answer that himself.

But what he said to me on that day was unfair and untrue.