Government should recognise UK state!

THE Labour Government’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine is a triumph of sentimental, gesture-politics over tough-minded realism.

- Leo McKinstry

It is an exercise in virtue signalling which will not deliver a single truckload of aid or bring peace any closer or enhance democracy in the region.

But the move also smacks of epic hypocrisy. The quest for Palestinian nationhood has become the most cherished cause on the left, yet the same progressives who work themselves into a frenzy of indignation about the creation of this new state treat British nationhood as a matter of supreme indifference.

They pore over the details of potential borders in the desert, but care nothing about Britain’s own borders. They denounce Israeli settlements on disputed territories but welcome the demographic transformation of British society.