Keir Starmer warned that pandering to ICC over call for Netanyahu’s arrest risks rift between UK & US

PANDERING to the International Criminal Court risks a rift betwixt Britain and Donald Trump, Sir Keir Starmer was warned yesterday.

It came arsenic Downing Street signalled that the PM would comply with an ICC warrant to apprehension Benjamin Netanyahu if helium travelled to the UK.

A No10 spokesperson said: “The UK volition ever comply with its ineligible obligations arsenic acceptable retired by home instrumentality and so planetary law.”

It saw Downing Street insisting that Israel remains an important “ally” - portion refusing to regularisation retired putting its PM successful handcuffs.

Senior Trump allies reacted with fury to the ICC judgment, pursuing President Biden branding it “outrageous”.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday threatened to present a Bill punishing states that travel ICC diktats.

The Senator said: “I volition beryllium introducing authorities that puts different countries connected announcement – If you assistance and abet the ICC aft their enactment against the State of Israel, you tin expect consequences from the United States.

“Any federation that joins with the ICC aft this outrage is simply a spouse successful a reckless enactment that tramples the regularisation of law.”

Incoming Senate Republican Leader John Thune pledged to bring a Bill to Capitol Hill sanctioning the ICC.

He said: “The ICC’s apprehension warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu and erstwhile Defence Minister Gallant is outrageous, unlawful, and dangerous.”

Sir Keir’s spokesperson said enactment had been done to physique bridges with Trump’s squad amid fears of a caller enactment with the US, which is not an ICC member.

Under the ICC Act, if Netanyahu steps ft successful Britain, a Cabinet Minister - astir apt Foreign Secretary David Lammy - indispensable question the warrant from a home court.

On Friday an onslaught of overseas leaders blasted the ruling by the overseas “kangaroo” court.

Austrian Prime Minister Alexander Schallenberg said: “The ICC determination is utterly incomprehensible.

“This determination is simply a disservice to the Court‘s credibility.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said: “The ICC apprehension warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu is brazen, cynical and wholly unacceptable.

“I invited Prime Minister Netanyahu for an authoritative sojourn to Hungary, wherever we volition warrant his state and safety.”

Both the outgoing-Joe Biden and incoming-Donald Trump administrations slammed the ruling, with immoderate Republican senators adjacent vowing repercussions for immoderate authorities that complies with it.

Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice said: “The ICC has disgraced itself with wide bias and Starmer has shown helium is kowtowing to planetary institutions to the detriment of our cardinal planetary relationships.”

Yesterday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper refused to accidental whether she would greenlight Mr Netanyahu being locked up successful Britain.

She told Sky News: “That’s not a substance for maine arsenic Home Secretary.

“The International Criminal Court is of people autarkic and we respect its independency and the relation that it has.”

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “Labour’s presumption is absurd.

“By accepting the determination of this Kangaroo Court, Starmer and Lammy hazard weakening our narration with our astir important state again.

“Starmer can’t accidental whether the person of an state of the UK would beryllium arrested connected accomplishment astatine Heathrow, but he’s blessed to shingle hands with the tyrannical Xi Jinping.

“It’s madness.”