Somerset Council Apologises for Trying To Evict Defence Company

Somerset councillors wasted an hour of a full council meeting yesterday on a motion from Labour and the Greens to evict international military technology company Elbit Systems from a council property because it supposedly supplies arms to the IDF. All prompted by protests from crazed activists…

Today they’ve had to apologise after Elbit got in touch to clarify that it does no such thing.[…] Read the rest