On 14 March 2026, at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in York, LDFP hosted a packed-out fringe event featuring journalist and author Peter Oborne in conversation with Layla Moran MP about his new book, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza.

Peter summarised the book’s key findings, in particular how Britain’s political and media establishment backed and enabled Israel’s Gaza genocide through uncritical repetition of Israeli narratives, a failure to explicitly acknowledge Israel’s illegal actions, and the stigmatisation or criminalisation of pro-Palestinian voices in the UK.

He welcomed the Liberal Democrats’ principled stance on Palestine, drawing parallels with the party’s historic opposition to the Iraq War, but suggested the party could go further by supporting broader economic and cultural sanctions on Israel to increase pressure on its government to change course.

Peter also condemned the ongoing unilateral and illegal US-Israeli war on Iran and subsequent Israeli assault on Lebanon. He argued that Israel is the driving force behind this escalation, and that Gaza – the war crimes, the sense of impunity, and the complicity of Western states – was the preliminary stage for the wider international law violations now unfolding.