Keir Starmer’s planned recognition of a Palestinian state this weekend may open the floodgates to costly lawfare against Britain. Pro-Palestinian lawyers are already limbering up for a major lawsuit demanding reparations for Britain’s historic role in the region. A Chagos-style surrender bill for the UK taxpayer could be looming…
A group of Palestinians has filed a legal petition accusing the UK of “serial international law violations”, marking the launch of the campaign ‘Britain Owes Palestine‘. The group demands official acknowledgment of wrongdoing, a formal apology, and hard cash compensation for what they call a “century of oppression”. The Palestinian Authority hasn’t been shy about its intentions either. Back in September 2023 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas openly declared:
“We will persist with our pursuit of accountability and justice at the relevant international bodies against Israel… as well as against both Britain and America for their roles in the fateful Balfour declaration. We call for reparations, we call for compensation in accordance with international law.”
Has Starmer secured any guarantees that Britain won’t be dragged into court before he recognises Palestine?
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”