Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood were locked in an extraordinary stand-off with the police last night over controversial plans to ban Israeli football fans from a match in Birmingham. The Prime Minister savaged the decision to bar supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending the club’s Europa League match against Aston Villa next month and said the Government would do ‘everything in our power’ to get it reversed. But last night it emerged that Ms Mahmood had been personally warned of the impending decision a week before it was finalised and had not objected. Furious police chiefs...
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