Keir Starmer will go into his emergency cabinet meeting this afternoon under immense political pressure to change government policy and recognise a Palestinian state.
The discussion in the cabinet meeting will be part of a wider plan for peace which the prime minister will lay out to senior ministers. Sir Keir will be outlining details – not yet public – of a Europe-led peace plan for the Middle East which he has put together with President Emmanuel Macron of France and German chancellor Friedrich Merz –his so-called E3 partners.
