BORIS Johnson has warned it would be “insane” and “shameful” for Britain to stop arms sales to Israel.
The ex-PM accused the Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron of aiding Hamas terrorists with the idea.
Rishi Sunak is facing growing pressure to act over the killing of seven aid workers by an Israeli strike in Gaza.
The Prime Minister could press ahead and halt arms exports to the nation if new legal guidance suggests it has broken international law.
But ministers are refusing to say if and when the advice might be published.
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Chair of Foreign Affairs Select Committee Alicia Kearns said there is “no choice but to suspend arms sales”.
However, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman insisted Britain cannot abandon Israel before “they finish the job”.
In a move that is likely to create further tensions, Mr Johnson wrote in the Daily Mail: “If you want evidence of government madness, it appears that Foreign Office lawyers are busily canvassing the idea — which has not, as far as I can tell, yet been rejected by the Foreign Secretary himself.
He seems to have gone into a kind of purdah on the subject.” He added: “It’s not the hypocrisy I mind. It’s the implication: that good, clever, kindly people in this country are actually willing to take away, from Israel, its means of defending its citizens against Hamas.
“That is insane. That is shameful — and the sooner the Government formally denounces the idea, the better.”
