LONDON -- The U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, allows the U.N. to bring in aid and takes other steps toward long-term peace, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday.

Starmer, who is under mounting domestic pressure over the issue as scenes of hunger in Gaza worry many Britons, convened a rare summertime Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation. It came after he discussed the crisis with President Donald Trump during a meeting in Scotland on Monday.

Trump told reporters Monday he didn't mind Starmer "taking a position" on Palestinian statehood. On his flight back to the U.S. on Tuesday, Trump said the two never discussed the U.K. potentially recognizing a Palestinian state.

"We have no view on that," he said.

Starmer said

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