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Britain had to "stand for something", Prime Minister Andy Burnham told parliament on Wednesday (Sept 9) in a defense of his government's decision to block imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The import ban, announced on Tuesday (Sept 8) by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband alongside measures targeting settlement-linked companies and individuals, marked one of Britain's most significant policy shifts toward Israel in years.

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00:04Mr Speaker, on Friday, let me tell her and the whole house where Britain is showing leadership.
00:14There have been conservative politicians at this dispatch box, Labour politicians too,
00:19for decades, who've talked about the importance of the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.
00:31Words from any politician about a two-state solution will be only words if it's not backed with action.
00:39In this difficult and dangerous world, Britain has to stand for something.
00:44Britain has to show leadership.
00:47Britain has to stand for fairness, against injustice, where people are being bullied out of their homes, intimidated.
00:54We will always stand with the underdog and take what action we can to support them.
00:59That, Mr Speaker, is leadership on the world stage.
01:03Britain being true to what it's always been about.
01:06That is what the British people expect of us, and that is what this government will do.
01:12work, Britain being true to you.
01:13Thank you, Mr Speaker.
01:16Mr. Speaker.

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