UK Will Recognise Palestine in this Parliament – Guido Fawkes

Reynolds: UK Will Recognise Palestine in this Parliament

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Jonathan Reynolds was asked on Sky News this morning when Labour would recognise Palestine. A move that would have huge repercussions inside the Labour Party…

The business secretary said Labour “want to” and “will” recognise it, but the government hasn’t worked out when:

“The question is – how can we use that in a way that gives a genuine breakthrough to a real peaceful process? I know many countries around the world have already done this. To be frank, to be candid, it hasn’t stopped the appalling scenes that we’re talking about this morning.”

Rayner has been a key figure pushing for the move inside Cabinet. Reynolds said the US was – obviously – the most important factor in this and was pressed by Wilfred Frost if recognition will take place in this parliament:

“In this parliament, yes. I mean, if it delivers the breakthrough that we need. But don’t forget, we can only do this once. If we do it in a way which is tokenistic, doesn’t produce the end to this conflict, where do we go to next?”

Sounds like Starmer wants to do it sooner rather than later…