Avi Shlaim

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Avi Shlaim |John Rees

Most people in Britain think that Keir Starmer has outlived any use he might have had as Labour leader, according to YouGov’s bimonthly poll of the prime minister’s popularity. Some 40 percent think he should resign as leader, and only 37 percent think he should stay on, according to the May survey. The same thing happened in January, with only a blip in between. In another YouGov poll, Starmer is disliked by 51 percent of the population and only popular with 22 percent.

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Avi Shlaim |Anna Stavrianakis

The British government believes the US could sanction prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney over her role advising the ICC chief prosecutor on arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal. In April it emerged that the British Foreign Office had warned senior British lawyers involved in the ICC’s war crimes case against two senior Israeli leaders that they are at risk of US sanctions.

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Avi Shlaim |Anna Stavrianakis

The US has warned Britain and France against recognising a Palestinian state at a UN conference later this month, Middle East Eye can reveal. France and Saudi Arabia are set to co-host a major UN conference on the two-state solution beginning on 17 June in New York. France is reportedly gearing up to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state at the conference. MEE understands that France has been lobbying Britain to do so as well.