The culture secretary has defended the government’s decision to intervene to try to get the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending an Aston Villa match in Birmingham next month overturned. Answering an urgent question in the Commons, she said the decision raised a wider issue of principle, and that people should not be excluded from a match because they were Israeli and Jewish
Continue reading…The culture secretary has defended the government’s decision to intervene to try to get the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending an Aston Villa match in Birmingham next month overturned. Answering an urgent question in the Commons, she said the decision raised a wider issue of principle, and that people should not be excluded from a match because they were Israeli and Jewish Continue reading…