Boris Johnson has accused Labour of "abandoning Israel" in the wake of Foreign Secretary David Lammy's controversial decision to suspend certain British arms export licences to the country.

Lammy had told Parliament yesterday that it was up to the Government to assess the likelihood of a "clear risk" British weapons could be used to break international law in Gaza.

Though the Foreign Secretary noted that the move was neither a "blanket ban" nor an "arms embargo", he said it focused on items that could be used in the conflict in Gaza - indeed, just 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel have been rescinded.

But Johnson raged on social media at the news, even asking whether Lammy and Sir Keir Starmer "want Hamas to win".

The former PM wrote: "Hamas is still holding many innocent Jewish hostages while Israel tries to prevent a repeat of the October 7 massacre.

"Why are Lammy and Starmer abandoning Israel? Do they want Hamas to win?"

Johnson had previously labelled the prospect of suspending arms sales to Israel under Rishi Sunak's Government "shameful" and "insane" in a column for the Mail.

While as Prime Minister, he had written in Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth: "I am a passionate defender of Israel. Few causes are closer to my heart than ensuring its people are protected from the menace of terrorism and anti-Semitic incitement."

Following Lammy's move yesterday, Israel's minister for diaspora affairs, Amichai Chikli, told the BBC the decision had come "at a very sensitive moment" when Israel was burying six people "murdered in Hamas tunnels".

Chikli continued: "I think we need to combat terrorism together... The fight against Isis, al-Qaeda and Hamas - it's the same war between Western civilisation and radical Islam.

"The threat that is coming from Hamas is also an inner threat that you are facing in the streets of the UK."

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