Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/09/2025
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
The UK has officially recognised the state of Palestine. In the morning of Keir Starmer's announcement, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy explains Labour's reasoning, while Mel Stride criticises the government's timing.
Elsewhere, Ed Davey builds up to the Lib Dem conference by calling for Elon Musk's arrest.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman, |
| 0:12.8 | and this is the Sunday Roundup. In July, Kirstama announced that the UK would recognise Palestine |
| 0:19.3 | as a state unless Israel |
| 0:21.3 | improved the humanitarian situation in Gaza and committed to a peace that delivers a two-state solution. |
| 0:27.8 | Today, as Stahm were prepared to officially recognise Palestine, Deputy Prime Minister David |
| 0:32.7 | Lamy told Sky News that Israel's attack on Qatar and development plans in the West Bank had showed they |
| 0:38.2 | were not committed to a two-state solution. |
| 0:40.7 | The big news today is the government plans to recognise a Palestinian state. |
| 0:44.2 | Is that recognition unconditional or does it depend on, for example, the release of hostages? |
| 0:50.7 | Ministers have said both. |
| 0:52.9 | Well, look, I don't want to get ahead of what the Prime Minister will say later on today. |
| 0:58.3 | But when I set out in the UN that Britain was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state, there were two conditions. |
| 1:08.2 | One condition was, of course, unless Israel entered into a ceasefire, |
| 1:13.7 | and the second condition was also attaching that to a serious process to get to two states. |
| 1:21.4 | Well, look, since that announcement in July, in fact, with the attack on Qatar, a ceasefire at this point lays in tatters and the prospects |
| 1:32.3 | are bleak. And of course, we've also seen Israel move forward with an E1 development, which would |
| 1:38.2 | run a coach and horses between both North and South West Bank. The E1 development being settlement |
| 1:42.6 | in West Bank. And ensure that you do not get to two states. |
| 1:45.7 | You're setting conditions for Israel. |
| 1:48.2 | What about conditions for Hamas? |
| 1:50.4 | Are there any conditions for Hamas? |
| 1:52.9 | We have been crystal clear. |
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