Foreign Secretary Lammy's 'Balanced Position' on Israel-Palestine

Challenges on the horizon: London’s diplomatic capital internationally is being impacted by the perception that the UK’s commitment to the ‘rules-based order’ is not as absolute as it proclaims. Image: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy

The new UK government must act for a genuine and sustainable peace settlement in Israel–Palestine to be possible.

As Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet sets about establishing what Labour policies mean in government for the first time in more than 14 years, his ministers will find there are some issues that will prove as thorny in government as they did in opposition. When it comes to foreign policy, one such example would be the Middle East; and when it comes to the Middle East, one such example would be Israel and the Palestinians.

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