Ed Miliband: “I formally declare that Britain considers Israel’s occupation of the West Bank unlawful.”

We should have acted earlier, and it has taken the new prime minister to come in to recognise the gravity of the situation, to recognise the degree of public concern on these questions.

The E1 project would cut across land sought for a future Palestinian state and put a two-state solution at risk.

I do not believe the British people want us supporting the occupation by accepting products from settlements in our shops and supermarkets. So I can announce today that we will introduce an import ban on goods from illegal settlements in…

The set of measures I have announced represents a clear message to the government of Israel, to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, and to the world that we will not acquiesce in the destruction of the two-state solution.