British foreign minister David Lammy and JD Vance talked Gaza during a meeting on Friday as the US vice president kicked off his holiday in the United Kingdom.

Lammy hosted Vance at his country retreat in Chevening in Kent, southeast of London, where the pair went fishing in a carp pond before getting down to business.

Vance told reporters the United States had "no plans" to follow Britain by recognising a Palestinian state, as the meeting got under way at the 17th-century mansion.

"I don't know what it would mean to really recognise a Palestinian state, given the lack of functional government there," Vance said.

He added that he expected President Donald Trump to "talk at some point to the media about his response" to Israel's plan to "take military control" of the Palestinian territo

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