Defence Secretary Grant Shapps speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture date: Sunday January 21, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Defence. Photo credit should read: Maja Smiejkowska/PA Wire

UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said that the opposition by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the creation of a Palestinian state was “disappointing”.”I don’t think we get to a solution unless we have a two-state solution,” he told Sky News. Mr Shapps added that the UK “certainly remains wedded to” a two-state solution and that there “isn’t another option”.

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