Keir Starmer is set to announce the UK’s official recognition of Palestinian statehood later today. In July, the Prime Minister had said that the UK would recognise the state of Palestine if Israel did not improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza and commit to a long-term peace process.

Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News this morning, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said that Israel’s attack on Qatar and its highly controversial ‘E1 development’ plan to divide the West Bank show that Israel is not committed to ‘two states’. Phillips noted that the UK government had set conditions for Israel, but not Hamas. Lammy said the government has been ‘crystal clear’ that Hamas is a terrorist organisation and can play no role in any Palestinian state, but that we must not ‘confuse the Palestin

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