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Ex-minister faces probe after being accused of using ‘antisemitic tropes’ in LBC interview

Source: PA Archive

A former Conservative minister is being investigated by his party over comments accusing two Tory peers of “exercising the interests of another country”.

Sir Alan Duncan, who served as a minister under , claimed in an interview with that the Conservative Friends of Israel group was “doing the bidding of Netanyahu” and called for two of its prominent members, Lord Polak and Lord Pickles, to be “removed from the House of Lords”.

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