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    The new Attorney General is Suella Braverman Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on May 2, 2020, 1:23 pm, in reply to "Message from Campaign Against the Arms Trade"


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suella_Braverman

    Near the bottom of her Register of Interests, see the usual entry.

    'Name of donor: Conservative Friends of Israel
    Address of donor: 41 Whitehall, London SW1A 2BY

    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): travel and accommodation; £2,000
    Destination of visit: Israel and the West Bank
    Date of visit: 30 August – 4 September 2015
    Purpose of visit: fact finding political delegation
    (Registered 17 September 2015)'
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25272

    There is no escaping the FoI pressures. She was newly elected in May 2015. It is compulsory for a new MP to go to Israel with a so called 'Friends of Israel' group of whichever partei.

    Her website - Wednesday, 2 September, 2015
    'During the Summer Recess, I visited Israel and the West Bank with eight of my newly elected colleagues. My week in the region was most illuminating; whether it was the visit to the Netiv Ha’asara moshav in Southern Israel, where families live under the constant threat of rocket fire from Gaza, or the visit to Rawabi and the Palestinian entrepreneurs* trying to regenerate and invest in an area with high-levels of unemployment.'
    https://www.suellabraverman.co.uk/news/parliamentary-visit-israel-and-west-bank

    *The 'Palestinian entrepreneurs' will have been PA collaborators with the Occupier.

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