From the Balfour declaration of 1917 to Tony Blair’s role as envoy, the UK has struggled to make meaningful progress towards peace in the Middle East
The former British prime minister Harold Macmillan once said that there was no problem in the Middle East because a problem has a solution. Keir Starmer is the latest incumbent in No 10 to try to prove Macmillan wrong through a plan that has been described by Downing Street as “pathway to peace” for Gaza and the wider region. The record of Britain’s previous interventions do not augur well.
