A group of the country's most prominent lawyers have warned Sir Keir Starmer his pledge to recognise Palestine as a state could be illegal. A letter, signed by 40 members of the House of Lords, has warned a Palestinian state would be within the bounds of international law.
Such a state, the peers say, would not meet the criteria set out under the Montevideo Convention. The convention, signed in 1933, sets out the four key criteria for a state to be formally recognised under international law.
These criteria include a state possessing a permanent population, a defined territory, a government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. There is no certainty over the border of a proposed Palestinian state, and there is no functioning single government - as Hamas, which effectively runs Gaza, is a proscribed terror group in the UK.
It also warns that if this was to go ahead, Britain's Government would be unable to recognise millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as "refugees" because the recognition of a state would mean they were in their own territory.
The document was sent to Attorney General Lord Hermer - who has been labelled "obsessed" with international law - and was signed by seven KCs, among others.
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