UK's Liberal Democrats back Israel arms ban, ousting Hamas and proscribing IRGC

Britain’s Liberal Democrat party passed a motion in favour of suspending arms exports to Israel and backing an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Monday at its annual conference in Brighton.

The motion, which was tabled by British-Palestinian MP Layla Moran, passed with an overwhelming majority and also called for Hamas to be ousted from Gaza "through diplomacy".

It also recognised Iran as an “existential threat” to western democracies and asked for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. 

Moran said she had worked with both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups to formulate the motion, which may explain its mixture of positions.

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