They said trade with Israel was “paused.” The government’s own data tells a different story. The date it OMITTED Tells an even bigger one. Right, so the government’s own figures have given the game away. Buried in a Department for Business and Trade factsheet dated 31 October, because Halloween is frankly the perfect day to release news like this, it says exports to Israel rose 10.5 percent to £3.6 billion in the year to June 2025. That’s from the previous June, so that is basically Starmer’s first year in power — and it happened while Gaza continued to be burned and Labour claimed to have “paused” a trade deal out of principle. The truth is, they only paused the headlines. And those billions they’ve just announced? Well they are just the part they’re willing to print. It’s just the tip of the iceberg because they don’t include everything. They don’t include the arms licences, MoD contracts, offshore finance and hidden service deals – they all sit below the waterline. What they published is just the tip; what they’re profiting from is the iceberg. And for a government that talks so much about moral clarity, it’s remarkable how much they’ve managed to hide and now it’s going to blow up in their face. Right so the figures are not leaked. They’re not hearsay. They’re the government’s own numbers here, sitting quietly in a Department for Business and Trade factsheet from Halloween. In the twelve months to the end of June 2025 - the first full year of Keir Starmer’s premiership, so this is on him - British exports to Israel rose by £342 million, up 10.5 per cent, to £3.6 billion. Imports from Israel dipped slightly to £2.6 billion, a 4.6 per cent fall. People here not wanting to buy Israeli it seems, or invest in a nation so destabilised by its own crackpot and genocidal government, but actually that’s only a small part of the truth. The total value of trade between the two countries reached £6.2 billion, a 3.7 per cent increase on the previous year. Those numbers appear under the seal of His Majesty’s Government, not in a campaign pamphlet, they are official, they are shameful. The contradiction is in and of itself damaging enough to Starmer’s regime. In public the Labour government told the country it had “paused” talks on a new UK–Israel Free Trade Agreement. In private, or at least on paper, trade was still climbing. What was frozen was not the money; it was the accountability. The figures show that far from retreating, Britain deepened its commercial ties at the very moment it claimed to be distancing itself.