The Prime Minister has joined a ferocious backlash against the police-led shut out of Israeli fans from Aston Villa’s Europa League fixture against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Safety advisers in Birmingham City and UK police said Israeli team fans should not attend match due to safety risks.

BIRMINGHAM, England - Britain's government is doing everything in its power to make sure travelling fans of soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv can attend a match in Birmingham next month, interior minister Shabana Mahmood said on Friday,

The tournament is set to be held in the UK after Fifa president Gianni Infantino confirmed it was the sole "valid" bidder for the sporting event

The report read: “The least integrated places — Oldham, Accrington, Bradford, Boston, Wisbech, Spalding — are either the post-industrial districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire dominated by people of Pakistani heritage or the towns of Eastern England that have experienced large inflows of East Europeans.”

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Airlines are offering jetsetters an extra 31 destinations to fly out to from the UK in 2026. British Airways, easyJet, Jet2 and TUI are among the airlines which have confirmed they will be flying to new holiday hotspots.