Foreign Secretary

August 11, 2026, 4:58 pm

Ed Miliband confirms ‘frank and constructive’ first call with Israel’s Foreign Minister Sa’ar

Foreign Secretary says Burnham government wants 'open and honest dialogue' with Israel

By Lee Harpin

July 22, 2026, 4:34 pm

Miliband pledges ‘new international momentum’ for Israeli-Palestinian peace

New Foreign Sec gives major speech as Foreign Secretary at the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference in Manila

By Lee Harpin

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arriving in Downing Street, London. New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has entered number 10 Downing Street and among his first tasks is the selection of his new Cabinet. Picture date: Monday July 20, 2026.

July 20, 2026, 6:42 pm

Ed Miliband made Foreign Secretary in PM Burnham’s cabinet shake-up

Move will raise concern among some communal leaders

By Lee Harpin

Ma'ale Adumim settlement in the occupied West Bank

June 22, 2026, 10:43 am

UK position on Israel and international law ‘unsustainable’ clams parliamentary committee

Foreign Secretary challenged over response to ICJ opinion on Israeli actions

By Lee Harpin

Yvette Cooper Photo: Charles McQuillan/PA Wire

March 25, 2026, 10:13 am

Yvette Cooper voices ‘deep concern’ over lack of focus on West Bank and Gaza

Foreign Secretary speaks out on 'the scale of settler violence' currently taking place in the West Bank

By JN Reporter

UK tents arrive in Gaza after months of aid delays. Pic: Twitter/X LBC

February 19, 2026, 9:59 am

Yvette Cooper calls for more aid access to Gaza in address to Security Council

Yvette Cooper tells UN Security Council Israel must urgently expand Gaza aid access amid “catastrophic” conditions

By JN Reporter

Yvette Cooper, as Home Secretary ar CST Fundraising Dinner 2025. (C) Blake Ezra Photography

October 7, 2025, 7:18 pm

OPINION: Now it is up to everyone in our country to stand united against antisemitism

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper writes for Jewish News after attending an October 7 commemoration service at the Finchley Reform Synagogue

By Yvette Cooper

An Israeli F-35 jet (credit: Israeli Air Force)

June 30, 2025, 11:24 am

Palestinian group fails in UK legal attempt to stop F-35 parts exports to Israel

The High Court fully rejects case brought by legal representatives of the Al Haq NGO

By Daniel Sugarman

May 28, 2025, 11:58 am

Foreign Secretary accused of wrongly translating Netanyahu comments to Parliament

The Foreign Secretary told Parliament the Israeli PM had said, regarding food aid, 'just enough to prevent hunger'. Native Hebrew speakers have disputed this

By Daniel Sugarman

April 22, 2024, 4:41 pm

Let our people go! Union of Jewish Students pleads with UK government to bring hostages home

Ahead of seder night, Jewish Society presidents from campuses including Durham, Surrey, Sheffield, Bath, Edinburgh, Oxford, Dundee and Leeds pen letter to foreign secretary

By Michelle Rosenberg

February 12, 2024, 12:26 pm

Cameron calls for Israel to ‘stop the fighting now’ ahead of expected Rafah operation

David Cameron tells reporters the best way to get hostages out of Gaza, and get aid in is to 'stop the fighting now and turn that into a permanent, sustainable ceasefire'

By Lee Harpin

James Cleverly delivers speech in Israel

October 3, 2023, 5:25 pm

James Cleverly blocked from West Bank Area C visit over security concerns

The foreign secretary was prevented from visiting Palestinians in the Israeli controlled Area C region of the West Bank last month after officials raised security concerns

By Lee Harpin

September 12, 2023, 1:08 pm

Cleverly avoids mention of Israel’s internal crisis in speech warning of Iranian threat

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly spoke at an security conference in Israel, during his three-day visit to the region

By Lee Harpin

June 15, 2023, 8:48 am

Cleverly meets with communal leaders to discuss Iran

Representatives from the JLC, Board, and CST held talks with foreign secretary James Cleverly in Westminster

By Lee Harpin

Netanyahu and his new minister Ben-Gvir.

February 24, 2023, 5:18 pm

UK government has ‘no plans’ to work with Ben Gvir, confirms Cleverly

James Cleverly says the UK government 'has not engaged Itamar Ben-Gvir in his role as minister of national security, and we have no current plans to do so'

By Lee Harpin

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