The UK’s former health secretary, Wes Streeting, has been branded a liar and a hypocrite after he accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of ignoring detailed evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
In an interview with the News Agents podcast, Streeting said that Starmer accused him of sharing a dossier of evidence provided by British doctors who had been to Gaza for “political purposes” so that it could be leaked.
“When I sent that dossier around, the prime minister accused me of sending around a document that was designed to be leaked,” said Streeting, who resigned as health secretary last month.
“Now, that might have been the way that the briefing operation against me in Downing Street worked, but you’ll have noticed that until the messages were released this week, I didn’t publish that dossier,” he continued.
“I had met British doctors, I had been distressed by what they 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.”
