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Is Britain complicit in genocide?

Dec 13, 2025
57 mins

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Journalist Peter Oborne claims both Labour and Conservatives have fallen short on their response to Israel's war in Gaza.


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Peter Oborne is a journalist, author and commentator. He was the political editor of The Spectator, a commentator for the Daily Telegraph and now writes for Middle East Eye.


A long-time conservative, Oborne joins Oli Dugmore to explain why he believes the Conservative Party have abandoned their principles, and to discuss the role that successive British governments have played - or failed to play - in dealing with genocides around the world.


Peter Oborne's book "Complicit: Britain's role in the destruction of Gaza" is out now.



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