London mayor’s comments come as number of Labour MPs calling for a halt reaches 50
Sadiq Khan has become the most senior Labour figure yet to call for an immediate end of UK arms sales to Israel after a drone attack killed seven aid workers in Gaza, with the London mayor saying: “It’s got to stop.”
Khan’s comments came as a tally of public statements by the leftwing Labour group Momentum showed that more than 50 Labour MPs had also demanded an end to arms sales, a quarter of the party’s total in the Commons.
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