Former Home Office minister Norman Baker says: “The Israeli government has been very busy trying to infiltrate each of the political parties to make sure that they are identifying friends in those parties who will then stand up for Israel or the Israeli government and stymie any opposition which is there. We saw people who criticise Israel in parliament being criticised heavily in return by their party leadership, sometimes expelled from their party.
“If you're an MP [who] can't stand up and say what he thinks or she thinks in the House of Commons, what kind of democracy is that?
