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Andy Burnham’s government has hired a US consultancy firm that helped set up a group to run “aid” sites in Gaza where Israeli forces massacred starving civilians. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will help with Burnham’s 10-year plan, the Times reported. The plan, which has yet to be published, has been billed as part of the prime minister’s pledge to end decades of neoliberalism in the UK. BCG last year had to publicly disavow its role in creating the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which operated four sites where hundreds of people were killed while trying to get food in 2025, as Israel deliberately starved Gaza’s population. BCG, one of the ‘big three’ global consulting firms, was also involved last year in Donald Trump’s plan to turn Gaza into a riviera, which would effectively amount to ethnic cleansing. As part of those plans, it produced a financial model for a scenario where Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from Gaza. It built the model two months after Trump suggested emptying Gaza of its inhabitants, the Financial Times reported. “Aside from an obvious point that you don’t appoint companies like the Boston Consulting Group if you have any actual intention of ending 40 years of neoliberalism, Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ blueprint is clear ethnic cleansing,” Green party leader Zack Polanski said in a statement. “The idea that Andy Burnham has invited these people into the heart of Downing Street shows contempt for the victims of the genocide. They must be removed from this project.” BCG previously employed Burnham’s chief of staff, James Purnell. BCG said in a July 2025 statement that two of its partners “provided pro bono support to help establish an aid organisation intended to operate alongside other relief efforts” in Gaza. The partners “failed to disclose the full nature of the work. These individuals then carried out subsequent unauthorised work,” it added. “Their actions reflected a serious failure of judgment and adherence to our standards.” The UK government said BCG is providing a single consultant for the 10-year plan and their support is limited to “specific specialist advice.”