Extracts: British Member of Parliament, Ayoub Khan [Independent Alliance] asked Prime Minister Keir Starmer why the Starmer government has not classified Israel's war as a genocide, to which Starmer answered:
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“I'm well aware of the definition of genocide and that is why I've never referred to it as one”
Being that Starmer and his Defence Secretary David Lammy have rejected the accusations of genocide before, Khan requested that the Prime Minister,
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“share his definition of genocide with this House”
Starmer retorted:
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"It would be wise to start a question like that by reference to what happened in October of last year”
to which the members of Starmer's party applauded
Starmer continued:
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“I'm well aware of the definition of genocide and that is why I've never referred to it as genocide”
