Starmer to hold emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza amid calls to recognise Palestinian state – UK politics live | Politics
By: Andrew Sparrow | Published: 2025-07-29 13:17:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
Badenoch claims Starmer holding cabinet meeting on Gaza just to resolve ‘internal party problem’
In her Talk interview Kemi Badenoch also criticised Keir Starmer’s decision to hold a rare, summer recess cabinet meeting to discuss Gaza this afternoon. She claimed that recognising Palestinian statehoood would not help and that Starmer was only holding the meeting to resolve an internal Labour problem (pressure from ministers and MPs for statehood recognition).
Asked if she supported recognising Palestine as a state, she replied:
No. I think it would be the wrong thing to do at this point …
Statehood gives Hamas power. And it’s yet another gimmick.
Why is he convening cabinet to talk about Gaza? He’s not convening cabinet to talk the migrant crisis. He’s now convening cabinet…
