Shocking at PMQs just now - "Article 2 of the United Nations genocide convention makes it explicitly clear that genocide is not about numbers, it's about intent. And the intent of the Israeli government and the IDF has been explicitly clear in words and in actions over the past 400 days - more than 45,000 men women and children killed. On the 28th of October the foreign secretary denied that a genocide was even taking place, and suggested that the Israeli army had not yet killed enough Palestinians to constitute a genocide. Last week at PMQs the Prime Minister stated that he has never referred to the atrocities happening in Gaza as a genocide. Will the Prime Minister share his definition of genocide with this house and will he say what further action he's prepared to take to save lives of desperate and starving men, women and children, given that we now hold the presidency of the United Nations security council."
Starmer's response - "It would be wise to start a question like that by reference to what happened in October of last year. I'm well aware of the definition of genocide and that is why I've never described this and referred to it as genocide."