PM 'under pressure' to recognise Palestine, Tories claim

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Priti Patel has claimed the prime minister was "under enormous political pressure" from his backbenchers to recognise Palestine as a free state. The shadow foreign secretary added that Keir Starmer's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood was "ill-timed". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think we all want to see a sustainable and lasting peace. There's no doubt about that.

00:05But his announcement, and it is an announcement because apparently they're going to review it as they go into September,

00:11his announcement I think is totally ill-timed and there's no doubt that he's come under enormous political pressure,

00:17not for the first time I should add, from his backbenchers. I've seen that in Parliament myself.

00:22I've pressed the government at the dispatch box something like 22 times on this whole conflict

00:27and what the British government is actually doing to bring an end to this conflict

00:32and find a sustainable ceasefire and work towards that.

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