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Government seeking 'absolute ban' on BDS next year, MP claims

THE government is pushing ahead with plans to legislate against the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a former Tory minister has revealed. 

Tory MP and former housing secretary Robert Jenrick said such a Bill could be introduced to Parliament as early as next spring.

It comes more than two years after the Tories promised in their 2019 manifesto to impose a ban on councils using “boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries.”

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