The genocide never ended – and neither has Britain’s complicity. Britain is still supplying F-35 parts to Israel. Britain is still supplying military intelligence. Britain is still facilitating acts of genocide.

In blocking this inquiry, the Government is not just covering for the complicity of its predecessors. It is hiding its own ongoing complicity in the greatest crime of our time.

Just like Iraq, we will remember those who obstructed the path to justice.

Burnham may have apologised for the last government’s approach in Gaza, but his words of regret will mean very little if he doesn’t break with its shameful record of complicity, secrecy and evasion.

Ultimately, delaying scrutiny will not make questions about British complicity in genocide disappear. The public deserves to know the full extent of Britain’s military, economic and political cooperation with Israel from October 2023 to date.

It’s not complicated: if the Government has nothing to hide, then why block our efforts to expose the truth?