Keir Starmer dumps Labour Party policy to recognise Palestinian statehood

Keir Starmer has officially dropped the Labour Party's promise to recognise Palestine as a state unilaterally, and will now only do so as a result of a two-state solution with Israel.

The Labour leader told the Jewish Chronicle that the party was "committed to the two-state solution" and that "recognition has to be part of a process, and an appropriate part of the process".

The U-turn comes after Labour's National Executive Committee passed policy in October stating that they would “work alongside international partners to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as part of efforts to contribute to securing a negotiated two-state solution”.

Wayne David, the Labour Party's shadow Middle East minister, said the move was a departure from "T-shirt politics."

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