Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch condemned the Prime Minister Keir Starmer-led United Kingdom’s decision to formally recognise the State of Palestine.
PUNCH Online reports that Britain, alongside Australia and Canada, on Sunday recognised a Palestinian state in a seismic shift in decades of Western foreign policy.
Britain and Canada became the first G7 countries to take the step, with France and other nations expected to follow at the annual UN General Assembly, which opens Monday in New York.
However, the decision triggered swift Israeli anger and condemnation from the opposition.
Reacting in a statement on her X on Sunday, Badenoch described the move as “absolutely disastrous.”
She argued the move rewards terrorism with no conditions, and the decision would be widely regretted.
She said, “Absolutely disastrous. We will all rue the day this decision was made. Rewarding terrorism with no conditions whatsoever put in place for Hamas.
It leaves hostages languishing in Gaza and does nothing to stop the suffering of innocent people caught in this war.”
The Winchester opposition leader accused Labour of pandering to its “hard left” rather than fixing Britain’s pressing domestic problems.
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