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A DUP spokesperson said the party's representatives are part of a wider group and that the visit comes at no cost to UK taxpayers.

"Shortly afterwards," it added, the operatives "summoned representatives of the Red Cross and staged a false display of discovering a deceased hostage's body."

Climate lawfare is a political strategy laundered through lawsuits, designed to force a radical policy of energy poverty on a country whose elected representatives have repeatedly declined to adopt such destructive measures.

The Department of Education said Givan was "invited by the government of Israel to participate in an official visit as part of a delegation of representatives from Northern Ireland".

Union representatives have called Boeing’s previous offers insulting and pointed to recent wage gains by workers in the company’s Northwest commercial operations.