Mel Stride: Palestine recognition “rewards terrorism”

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hadow Chancellor Mel Stride has criticised the government’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state, saying it amounts to “rewarding terrorism”. He argued the move would not help release hostages, secure humanitarian aid in Gaza or advance a two-state solution. Stride said Prime Minister Keir Starmer was “bobbing around like a cork on the tide”. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This recognition is not going to do anything to drive the release of the hostages, getting

00:04humanitarian aid into Gaza, or taking us one step closer to a peaceful solution based around

00:10a two-state solution. And it really does feel very odd because when you make a move like

00:17this, you would typically do it by using it as leverage within a negotiation. And that's

00:22not what's happening here. There's nothing that's being received in return. And when

00:25you ask the question, well, why has that happened? It's really the Prime Minister being dictated

00:29to by his cabinet and backbenchers, et cetera, and bobbing around like a cork on the tide.

00:34So not a good way to conduct foreign policy.

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