When Keir Starmer takes part in the signing ceremony for the Gaza peace deal in Sharm El-Sheikh today, he will do so mostly as a spectator.

Whatever the UK Government may insist, Britain had very little to do with the negotiating of a deal that was struck due largely to the efforts of Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and the United States.

When British Cabinet ministers insisted at the weekend that the UK had played a “vital role” in securing the ceasefire deal, the claim drew immediate scorn from those closely involved in the peace talks. Israel’s deputy foreign minister directly rebutted the idea. Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel and a key player in the negotiations, dismissed the suggestion as “delusional”.

While Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, later tri

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