Breitbart.com reports: “The United Kingdom is talking with France and Saudi Arabia about recognising Palestine as a state later this year, the Foreign affairs minister of its left-wing government has revealed.

British Foreign Minister David Lammy told a House of Lords committee this week that the government is in discussions with France and Saudi Arabia to recognise Palestine as a state. The declaration would be part of a push to keep the notion of a two-state solution alive and would likely be made at a New York conference in June to be hosted by France and the Saudis, he said.

‘No one has a veto on when the United Kingdom recognises that Palestinian state,’ Lammy said according to The Guardian, but added that the intention of the move was not to make a symbolic gesture but rather to use British recognition as a tool to further the establishment of a Palestinian state.

‘It’s unacceptable for any group of people to have lived without no state for longer than I’ve been alive,’ Lammy said…”