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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Richard Wheeler

UK Government says it cannot support Palestinian state recognition Bill

People take part in the National march for Palestine in central London organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Archive)

A proposed law requiring the UK to recognise a Palestinian state has been rejected by the Government.

Liberal Democrat former minister Baroness Northover tabled the Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill in the hope of pushing the UK Government to act on its ambition for a two-state solution.

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