Israeli military spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht said the political leadership has not yet ordered an invasion of Gaza.

BBC's Newsnight host Kirsty Wark seemed to overlook the Palestinian ambassador's tragic personal circumstances during the interview.

Israel has stopped entry of food, fuel and medicine into Gaza, and the sole remaining access from Egypt shut down on Tuesday.

He told Times Radio he was confident he could hit his house-building target, which would include plans for the next generation of new towns.

"This doesn’t work for north-to-south, it doesn’t work east-to-west, and what we’re seeing in this plan is a decade of rail replacement buses with electrification."

“Valjean steals bread to feed a starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal?”

The Defence Secretary said Ms Braverman was ‘absolutely correct’ to warn about the scale of global movement of people.

Ms Braverman also faced heckles during her speech from Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff, who took umbrage with her allusion to the “poison” of “gender ideology”.

"We need a common-sense approach to sex and equality issues in the NHS"