The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is guilty of double standards in seeking an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cabinet secretary Michael Gove said on Tuesday.
Unlike Israel and the United States, the UK Government is a signatory to the ICC and would be obliged to respect any warrant should its subject visit Britain.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said he had “reasonable ground to believe” that Mr Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar bore responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
But Mr Gove, the communities and levelling up secretary, insisted on Times Radio that there was a drive “to hold Israel to standards that we don’t hold other countries to”.
