{"id":196950,"date":"2025-10-13T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196950\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:30:09","slug":"steve-witkoff-praises-jonathan-powells-tireless-efforts-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196950\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Witkoff praises Jonathan Powell’s ‘tireless efforts’ on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told Sky News the UK had “played a key role behind the scenes” in shaping the Gaza peace plan and had been involved in “complex matters of diplomacy”. <\/p>\n

Responding on the social media platform X, Huckabee said: “I assure you she’s delusional. She can thank Donald Trump anytime just to set the record straight.”<\/p>\n

Israel’s deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel added to Huckabee’s criticism arguing that the UK’s decision to recognise Palestinian statehood<\/a> had “actually pushed Hamas to embolden their position”. <\/p>\n

However, on Monday, Witkoff publicly lauded the UK’s involvement and specifically the role of Jonathan Powell.<\/p>\n

Asked about his praise, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said: “I was not born yesterday. <\/p>\n

“I think it is actually very sad that the government is having to beg people to send tweets to say something nice about Jonathan Powell.<\/p>\n

“I think that that is quite tragic, the way that the UK’s reputation is falling under this Labour government.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told Sky News the UK had “played a key role behind the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-196950","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\/196950","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=196950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}