PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure to condemn Donald Trump’s plan to drive Palestinians out of Gaza as MPs in all parties protest.

Ministers are struggling to maintain traditional British policy in support of a “two-state solution” to the Palestine crisis without distancing themselves from the US President’s ethnic cleansing scheme, which the prime minister refuses to do.

Foreign Office minister Anneliese Dodds mounted a rearguard defence of this duplicitous approach in the Commons today, stressing British commitment to international law and to Palestinians rebuilding their lives in Gaza.