Has Burnham just started his first row with Trump?

The Israeli government has reacted with anger to the British foreign secretary’s planned ban on products from Israeli settlements.

Ed Miliband described himself in the commons as a proud British Jew, but one unafraid to criticise the heinous behaviour of Netanyahu's government towards Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

Has the UK government gone too far? Or not far enough? And what will it do to relations with Israel’s closest ally, Donald Trump?

Later - why were Harry and Meghan hearing from the King's sources at the same time we were? Why can’t the royal family just text each other. And what does it all mean for relations in the monarchy?

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