CABINET member Jonathan Reynolds was challenged on the government’s arming of Israel’s genocide today.

The Business Secretary was interrupted by pro-Palestinian campaigners as he addressed a trade conference organised by foreign policy elite think tank Chatham House.

Before being bundled out, protesters called for an end to the sale of F-35 jet parts to Israel.

One shouted: “This man and his government are complicit in genocide.

“The F-35s are massacring Palestinian children. They have not stopped the trade of F-35s.”

A group of protesters had also gathered outside Chatham House, waving Palestinian flags and carry a banner saying “Stop arming Israel.”

Mr Reynolds claimed, wrongly, that “we have suspended arms exports to Israel” when only a few export licences have in fact been withdrawn.

“We have not suspended F-35s because they are integral to our national security and the defence of Ukraine, and people will know the supply chain for the F-35 means they cannot be isolated to one country,” he added.

Mr Reynolds also hinted at the trade tensions Britian has with the Trump administration in Washington.

He admitted there were “concerns and tensions” but also said that “the basis of a UK trade strategy has got to be in the UK’s national interest,” adding: “I can’t fight battles for other countries.

“With the US, we’ve said that obviously we have a different set of views to where they’re coming from… you can understand and engage with that even if you don’t necessarily agree with it.”

Britain is not planning “at the moment” to introduce retaliatory tariffs on the US, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said after Donald Trump imposed a new trade tax on car imports.

A 25 per cent tariff on vehicles imported to the US will come into effect on April 2.