MPs say Starmer must not meet Israeli president set to visit UK: Report

Labour MPs have said that Prime Minister Keir Starmer must not meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who is set to visit the UK next week, The Guardian newspaper has reported. 

Herzog is expected in the UK on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the British newspaper.

“The UK’s recognised the ‘real risk’ of genocide perpetuated by Israel, so unless this meeting is about peace, what message are we sending?” Sarah Champion, Labour MP and chair of the international development committee, wrote in a post on X.

Former shadow chancellor and Labour MP John McDonnell said he was “appalled at the decision to allow this representative of a government that is systematically killing Palestinian children on a daily basis to visit our country”.