{"id":151126,"date":"2025-09-21T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:20:08","slug":"uk-to-recognise-palestinian-state-as-starmers-deputy-tells-bbc-now-is-the-time-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151126\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to recognise Palestinian state as Starmer’s deputy tells BBC ‘now is the time’ – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lib Dems ‘welcome’ Starmer’s plans to recognise Palestinian statepublished at 11:57 BST<\/p>\n

11:57 BST<\/p>\n

\"Ed<\/p>\n

Liberal
\nDemocrat leader Sir Ed Davey says his party “really
\nwelcomes” the government’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

This is something that has been “needed to be done for years”, he tells journalists, as “part of the peace process
\nsolution get a two-state solution”.<\/p>\n

Davey calls for the government to put pressure on US President Donald Trump,
\nsaying he is “the one person who can stop all this fighting, and
\nget food into the Palestinians, and move towards a two-state solution, and get
\nthe hostages released”.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the BBC has also been speaking to the Lib Dems foreign affairs spokesperson, who says the move provides a “basis
\non which we can have a serious negotiation” towards a two-state solution.<\/p>\n

Calum Miller adds that “this is no reward for Hamas”, which he describes as a “terrible genocidal terrorist organisation”.<\/p>\n

Instead, he says “it is a recognition of the long-held rights of the Palestinian people”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lib Dems ‘welcome’ Starmer’s plans to recognise Palestinian statepublished at 11:57 BST 11:57 BST Liberal Democrat leader Sir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-151126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}