Labour's caller West Midlands politician has called for an arms embargo connected Israel arsenic statement raged implicit the party's attempts to triumph backmost mislaid Muslim voters.
Richard Parker said helium was already successful discussions implicit the determination - which is not existent enactment argumentation - but critics said his relation has thing to bash with overseas affairs.
The businessman narrowly bushed Tory incumbent Andy Street successful past Thursday's election, having mislaid astir 70,000 votes to a pro-Palestine candidate.
On Monday, his archetypal due time successful the job, helium faced a backlash for posting connected societal media astir the planned violative successful Rafah earlier helium acceptable retired his ideas for Birmingham.
Then yesterday helium was asked astir his fears of what Israel mightiness do.
'I americium incredibly concerned, and I made a precise wide connection that they mustn't spell into Rafah,' helium told LBC radio.
Labour's caller West Midlands politician Richard Parker, pictured, has called for an arms embargo connected Israel
Mr Parker pictured alongside Conservative enactment campaigner Andy Street and Reform UK enactment campaigner Elaine Williams
'I've called antecedently for a ceasefire, we request to guarantee that we get assistance into Gaza, that the planetary assemblage works collectively to make a two-state solution and we request the designation of a Palestinian state.'
Asked if helium supported an arms embargo connected Israel helium replied: 'I'm presently discussing that attack with a fig of MPs. I deliberation it's improbable to beryllium achieved successful the abbreviated term.
'I deliberation what is imaginable successful the abbreviated word is simply a ceasefire and a way to semipermanent bid successful the Middle East.'
His presumption is much hardline than that of Labour person Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who person said that arms exports should lone beryllium blocked if the Government gets ineligible proposal that Israel has breached planetary law.
In effect to their stance, activists daubed Labour HQ successful reddish overgarment and a abstracted radical held a protestation extracurricular Sir Keir's location with a banner speechmaking 'Starmer halt the killing'.
Mr Parker was besides asked however his enactment person should respond to a database of 18 demands by unit radical The Muslim Vote, including apologising for his past comments and imposing sanctions connected Israeli politicians.
He replied: 'I'll beryllium moving with assembly leaders here, with councillors, with our MPs crossed each parties to rebuild spot with our Muslim assemblage and hoping to guarantee that they travel backmost to Labour.' Pressed connected whether they should springiness successful to the demands, helium said: 'I don't astatine all.'
Last nighttime Tory MP Andrew Percy said: 'The caller Mayor was elected to code economical improvement and different issues successful the West Midlands, not to pontificate connected planetary affairs implicit which helium has nary competence.'
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