Ed Miliband: “And all too often, the Israeli government has turned a blind eye to this.”

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.

I utterly reject the idea that we want to make Israel a pariah state. I couldn’t have been more clear in my statement about our friendship with the Israeli people and indeed our wish to have trade with green line Israel.

I want to do this as quickly as possible. And I just say this – six to nine months is what I’ve said in the statement, if we can do it quicker, we will.

I regret what the Israeli government has announced, but I’m proud of what we did yesterday and it was the right thing to do.